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Overdiagnosis can mean either:
The diagnosis of a disease at an asymptomatic stage when it would not have had a chance to become symptomatic because the patient died in between.
The false positive result of the application of diagnostic criteria that would not have given symptoms during the lifetime of a patient. Screening programs increase both kinds of overdiagnosis.
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