Kudos to Tara Parker-Pope, who writes a must-read article in today’s NY Times. It touches upon the misconceptions of screening, including false positives, lead-time bias, and harm of potential treatments.
The USPSTF was instrumental last week in casting a more skeptical eye towards prostate cancer screening.
Mainstream media outlets are following suit, and now are writing more critical articles on early cancer screening.
Related posts:
- Prostate cancer screening in men over 75
- Prostate cancer screening in blacks, and the lack of balanced information
- Prostate cancer screening and the PSA test
- Is prostate cancer being overdiagnosed?
- Should I get a PSA test for prostate cancer? A new study shows that screening for prostate cancer doesn’t necessarily save lives
- Chicago Sun-Times gets prostate cancer screening wrong
- Should prostate cancer screening stop after the age of 75?
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Fascinating. Another thing that is WAY overdone: prescribing the myriad of medications that people are on these days. Do they really prolong life? I invite MDs to come to an ER sometime and view how commonplace it is for older people to be on 15 or more meds. Now its starting to seep down the younger people..
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