It found a weird spot on me that turned out to a pancreatic rest.
The only reason we did the scans were because we were making a significant life decision that we didn’t want to have to backtrack if either got diagnosed with cancer within a year . We knew nothing was guaranteed but we wanted to do some tests.
Is it though? Isn't it possible you could be early-detecting something serious that is much easier to treat now vs when symptoms appear?
Nothing in medicine comes for free—everything is a tradeoff.
It could be. It could also be the cade that you undergo invasive surgery for something that would have never caused you problems within your life. The problem is that cancer isn‘t cancer. Even if it originates from the same tissue, some tumors behave very different from others.