Cancer and Overdiagnosis

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Difference between Cancer and Overdiagnosis

Cancer vs. Overdiagnosis

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime.

Similarities between Cancer and Overdiagnosis

Cancer and Overdiagnosis have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Breast cancer, Cancer screening, Diagnosis, Lung cancer, Prostate cancer, Screening (medicine), Symptom.

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue.

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Cancer screening

Cancer screening aims to detect cancer before symptoms appear.

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Diagnosis

Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon.

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Lung cancer

Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.

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Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.

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Screening (medicine)

Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used in a population to identify the possible presence of an as-yet-undiagnosed disease in individuals without signs or symptoms.

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Symptom

A symptom (from Greek σύμπτωμα, "accident, misfortune, that which befalls", from συμπίπτω, "I befall", from συν- "together, with" and πίπτω, "I fall") is a departure from normal function or feeling which is noticed by a patient, reflecting the presence of an unusual state, or of a disease.

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What Cancer and Overdiagnosis have in common
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Cancer and Overdiagnosis Comparison

Cancer has 432 relations, while Overdiagnosis has 30. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 1.52% = 7 / (432 + 30).

References

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