In May, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against screening for thyroid cancer. After reviewing the available evidence, the task force concluded that thyroid cancer screening leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of tumors that rarely spread and that the likely harms from screening outweigh the benefits. Making such decisions is part of the task force’s mandate to provide independent recommendations on preventive services to primary-care clinicians and to people without obvious symptoms of the disease in question.

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美国预防服务工作队与批评家面对面

五月份，美国预防服务工作队建议不要筛查甲状腺癌。在审查了可用的证据之后，工作队得出结论，甲状腺癌筛查导致过度诊断和过度治疗很少扩散的肿瘤，筛查带来的潜在危害胜过其益处。做出这样的决定是工作组任务的一部分，该任务组为初级保健临床医生和没有明显疾病症状的人们提供有关预防服务的独立建议。