# OnCo record b-overdiagnosis (bottleneck). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
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<https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/>
  a schema:Thing ;
  onco:kind "bottleneck" ;
  schema:identifier "b-overdiagnosis" ;
  schema:name "Overdiagnosis and false alarms"@en ;
  schema:description "Finding more cancer is not the same as saving lives. Screening also finds cancers that would never have hurt anyone, and treats them."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq099>, <https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1409841>, <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61611-0> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-thyroid-overdiagnosis-reversal/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-thyroid-no-screening-no-small-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-ptmc-active-surveillance-default/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-low-risk-dcis-surveillance-pathway/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-indolent-lesion-nomenclature-body/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-gleason6-terminology-rct/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-prostate-as-triggered-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-small-renal-mass-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-lung-nodule-ai-discharge/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-blood-precursor-watch-registry/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-annual-overdiagnosis-reporting/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-screening-stop-by-life-expectancy/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-barrett-surveillance-deescalation/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-melanoma-ai-thick-melanoma-metric/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-incidentaloma-natural-history-cohort/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-ipmn-surveillance-stop-rule/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-pathology-ai-borderline-anchor/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-frail-elderly-primary-endocrine-breast/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-omit-radiotherapy-low-risk-breast-default/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-modern-autopsy-reservoir-studies/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-moon-indolence-classifiers-with-screening/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rcc/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/active-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/active-surveillance-thyroid/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mp-mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mammography/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/low-dose-ct-screening/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/partial-nephrectomy-active-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mced/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thyroid-fna-molecular/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/low-risk-dtc/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/psa/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/gleason-grade-group/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/ppv/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/bethesda-category/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/protect/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/precision-mri/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nlst-nelson/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-welch-j-natl-cancer-inst/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-independent-uk-panel-on-breast-cancer-lancet/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-ahn-n-engl-j-med/> .