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

Sunday, April 14, 2013

Three Decades of SEER Data Confirms That Mammogram Screening Does More Harm Than Good

Nearly one-third or 1.3 million women over the past 30 years were overdiagnosed with breast cancer (ie, their tumors would have never led to clinical symptoms in their lifetimes) in the United States,  according to the research published in the November 22, 2012 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. 

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

CTing the risk of dying from lung cancer.

Is CT scan is to lung cancer what Pap smear is to cervical cancer?  Can routine CT-scan screening detect asymptomatic lung cancer and improve the odds of someone being a "lung cancer survivor."  The results of the NCI-sponsored National Lung Screen Trial (NLST) released recently, would like you to believe, yes, it is.