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Cancer rates are hard to compare across countries because overdiagnosis is such a common issue.

A higher survival rate is to be expected when the doctors have a financial incentive to treat benign growths which the patient would have survived anyway. It can indicate overdiagnosis rather than indicating successful treatment.



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