What If What You ’Survived’ Wasn’t Cancer?
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Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- You’re feeling fine when you go foryour annual physical. But your mammogram looks a little funny,or your PSA test is a little high, or you get a CT lung scan anda nodule shows up. You get a biopsy, and the doctor delivers thebad news: You have cancer. Because you don’t want to die, youagree to be sliced up and irradiated. Then, fortunately, you’repronounced a “cancer survivor.” You’re glad they caught itearly.
But maybe you went through all that pain for nothing.