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  • Associate Professor, Biostatistician, Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Bond University
Men are 17% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than they were 30 years ago. fizkes/Shutterstock

29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year

Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney; Katy Bell, University of Sydney; Mark Jones, Bond University; Paul Glasziou, Bond University, and Thanya Pathirana, Griffith University

New research estimates 24% of cancers in men that were detected in 2012 were overdiagnosed, meaning they never would have caused harm if left untreated.

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