How cancer screenings can open up a patient to stressors that could negatively affect their health in other ways
At the population level, cancer screening helps in preventing death from the screened-for cancer, but screening may not lower overall mortality.
These risks relate to routine screening across populations—not to targeted cancer tests in those already showing signs or symptoms of cancer.Cancer is a diabolical disease that has been called the emperor of all maladies. Though treatments have improved in recent years, a full understanding of its causes and how best to treat it remains well out of reach. It is still the second leading cause of death in the U.S.
Vinay Prasad, an oncologist and researcher at Oregon Health and Science University, has argued in numerous papers that screening may do as much harm as good at the population level. As Prasad has shown, screening seems to have some benefit in terms of preventing death from the screened-for cancer—say, prostate cancer.
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