In Shift, Cancer Society Has Concerns on Screenings
By GINA KOLATA
Published: October 20, 2009
By GINA KOLATA
Published: October 20, 2009
The American Cancer Society, which has long been a staunch defender of most cancer screening, is now saying that the benefits of detecting many cancers, especially breast and prostate, have been overstated.
It is quietly working on a message, to put on its Web site early next year, to emphasize that screening for breast and prostate cancer and certain other cancers can come with a real risk of overtreating many small cancers while missing cancers that are deadly.
entire article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/health/21cancer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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ah, yes! I never get those damn tests!
In Freedom,
Frank Moore
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