” You’re feeling fine when you go for your annual physical. But your mammogram looks a little funny, or your PSA test is a little high, or you get a CT lung scan and a nodule shows up. You get a biopsy, and the doctor delivers the bad news: You have cancer. Because you don’t want to die, you agree to be sliced up and irradiated.
Then, fortunately, you’re pronounced a -cancer survivor-.
You’re glad they caught it early.
But maybe you went through all that pain for nothing. “…
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Bloomberg Opinion, by Virginia Postrel Aug 18, 2013.