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29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year

  • Written by Alexandra Barratt, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single yearMen are 17% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than they were 30 years ago.fizkes/Shutterstock

Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In the same year, we found that approximately one in five cancers in women were overdiagnosed.

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