As I recall the actual logic was after decades of early & frequent screening, allegedly the data showed a greatly increased rate of mass discovery and treatment, but no improvement in mortality at the population level. This suggested despite a lot of activity, we may not have accomplished anything.
but that means that instead of treatment the correct next step after discovery is monitoring of those masses, no?
also it's quite possible that (just as with COVID tests) we would benefit from more testing even if that test is not that reliable. (so there's an argument for developing fast non-ionizing radiation imaging machines, eg. a fast stand-in MRI)
