How to Use overdiagnosis in a Sentence

overdiagnosis

noun

• The rate of overdiagnosis more than doubled, from 8% of cases to 17%.
  — Melissa Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2023
• One is overdiagnosis: finding small tumors that would never have been noticed and may not have caused any harm.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 10 June 2022
• That decision was prompted by concerns the test was leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
  — Mike Stobbe, The Seattle Times, 8 Jan. 2019
• Gilbert Welch, the overdiagnosis skeptic, suggested keeping the flow of real-time data to a minimum.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 14 Dec. 2020
• The paper’s authors also say that an abnormal reading could cause an overdiagnosis of an infant, which could spark a visit to the ER, followed by unnecessary blood tests and X-rays.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Aug. 2017
• The authors wrote: These findings raise concerns about the potential harms of overdiagnosis and overprescribing.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2012
• The diagnostic criteria are still fuzzy, and the potential for overdiagnosis is enormous.
  — Benedict Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• And some researchers fear new AI models’ focus on minute signs of disease could cause an epidemic of overdiagnosis, leading to unnecessary biopsies and surgeries.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 13 June 2022
• There are also concerns about overdiagnosis, Sandler said.
  — Patrick Martin, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• And more news organizations are now reporting on the problem of overdiagnosis, although even these reports usually fail to caution that cancer screening is what leads to those diagnoses in the first place.
  — David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
• Hazard-Jenkins acknowledges that overdiagnosis is indeed a significant problem in the case of breast cancer.
  — Simar Bajaj, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
• There is also concern that MCED tests may result in overdiagnosis of low-risk, asymptomatic cancers better left undetected.
  — Colin Pritchard Professor, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• Over-testing of asymptomatic men and women can lead to overdiagnosis (flagging of microtumors and other anomalies that never would have compromised health) and overtreatment.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021
• Van Gils said the study is ongoing and that mathematical models will be run to make further predictions about mortality and overdiagnosis.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2019
• Also, two extra women would be treated for tumors that never would have become life-threatening — that overdiagnosis problem.
  — Lauran Neergaard, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2017
• But medicine has become a business replete with overdiagnosis and overtreatment—and skyrocketing medical charges.
  — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
• Getting mammograms too early or too frequently has brought up concerns about false positives and overdiagnosis.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
• Lead time and overdiagnosis can only increase survival statistics.
  — H. Gilbert Welch, STAT, 14 Jan. 2022
• Barry says potential harms include false-positive results that lead to anxiety and additional testing—and the overdiagnosis and treatment of small lung nodules that would never have become life-threatening.
  — Simar Bajaj, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2022
• Doctors have often dismissed and minimized patients’ concerns, and others have profited from overdiagnosis.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
• Guaranteeing that the benefits outweigh any harm from overdiagnosis, overtreatment, false results and complications.
  — Yair Paska, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021
• Recent studies suggest that routine screenings can lead to overdiagnosis of breast cancer, identifying growths that don’t necessarily develop into life-threatening cancers.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2020
• Widening the parameters for screening eligibility inevitably also increases the possibility for overdiagnosis, which can lead to unnecessary treatment.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 12 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024