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Myocardial mug by Hana Ayoob curiousoctopus.co.uk

Suggested reading:
The Patient Paradox by Margaret McCartney - amazon.co.uk/Patient-Paradox-Sexed-Medicine-Health/dp/1780660006
Overdiagnosed by H Gilbert Welch - amazon.co.uk/Overdiagnosed-Making-People-Pursuit-Health/dp/0807021997/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=h+gilbert+welch&qid=1582457099&s=books&sr=1-1

References:
Overdiagnosis in cancer - academic.oup.com/jnci/article/102/9/605/894608
How 5 year survival can mislead - bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f548
Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer? - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10865276?dopt=Abstract
Why cancer screening has never been shown to “save lives”—and what we can do about it - bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080
Incidentalomas - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29914908
Thyroid cancer - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27627550
The NELSON lung cancer screening trial - nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1911793?articleTools=true