The South Korean experience shows that aggressive screening creates an 'epidemic' of tiny thyroid cancers that may never harm a person. But doctors here still say 'remove it all, to be safe.' My own life says this is a grave mistake. After my total thyroidectomy for a 1-centimeter tumor, the lifelong medication and constant fear of the calcium levels dropping—aaj kal toh har chhotti baat pe tension—have taken a joy from our home that the cancer itself never did.
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