Showing posts with label cancer screening exaggerated. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer screening exaggerated. Show all posts

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Cancer Screening Exaggerated

"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."
Go to http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33408887/from/RSS/ to read complete article