> You're finding something that never would have caused you any problem in your life
Is it though? Isn't it possible you could be early-detecting something serious that is much easier to treat now vs when symptoms appear?
> Isn't it possible you could be early-detecting something serious that is much easier to treat now vs when symptoms appear?
It could be. It could also be the cade that you undergo invasive surgery for something that would have never caused you problems within your life. The problem is that cancer isn‘t cancer. Even if it originates from the same tissue, some tumors behave very different from others.
Yes, you could early-detect something, but the likelihood of this thing being life-threatening are extremely low. If you choose to manage this thing aggressively anyway, you have to undergo more invasive testing (e.g., biopsies, surgery, anesthesia, etc.) that all have small risks of catastrophic events. In most cases, the risks of more invasive testing outweigh the risks of just not pursuing any further workup.
Nothing in medicine comes for free—everything is a tradeoff.