An Interesting Study

The old adage, "seek and ye shall find", often applies to many things. In an Australian Medical Journal they published a paper measuring over diagnosis. The results for men are shown below. As would be expected the melanoma in situ is high for Australia but it is the same in many similar regions. The reason is very early diagnosis of moving melanocytes which may never become a real melanoma.

Thyroid is due to incidental findings of small micro-carcinomas which most likely would never go anywhere. Prostate cancers are the same, yet there are those which can be very aggressive.

This results again begs the issue; what is cancer?