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  • HOME
    • The Team
    • Contact
  • Background
    • What is the thyroid gland?
    • What is cancer?
    • Types of thyroid cancer
    • What is over diagnosis?
    • Source articles
  • The monitoring experience
    • Discovering the nodule
    • Hearing the word 'cancer'
    • The process of questioning
    • Reading the medical literature
    • Cancer is not black and white
    • The risk -benefit analysis
    • Living with the decision
    • What this study means and does not mean
  • Tell us what you think!
  • Monitoring study archive
    • Welcome page
    • Basic Information
    • Detailed Information

reading the medical literature

A Typical example:

“I just let loose on all of the medical journals and everything. I started to find the work on overdiagnosis. And I was looking at the studies in Japan where they were doing watchful waiting. I saw that the mortality rates were similar for people who didn’t jump into surgery.”

more examples:

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