# OnCo record idea-prev-modern-autopsy-reservoir-studies (idea). 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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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-modern-autopsy-reservoir-studies/>
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  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-prev-modern-autopsy-reservoir-studies" ;
  schema:name "Modern autopsy studies to measure how much silent cancer people carry"@en ;
  schema:description "Autopsy studies decades ago found hidden prostate, thyroid and breast cancers in people who died of other causes, but they pre-date modern pathology. Repeating them with whole-body imaging and standardised histology would measure the reservoir of harmless cancer that every overdiagnosis estimate depends on."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-prev-modern-autopsy-reservoir-studies/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq099> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-welch-j-natl-cancer-inst/> .