Overdiagnosis - Wikipedia

Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime[1] and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease. Although screening saves lives in some cases, in others it may turn people into patients unnecessarily and may lead to treatm

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英語版Wikipediaの “Overdiagnosis” の所にも、誤診とも誤陽性とも違うという説明がしてある。