Tag: cancer screening

Do cancer screenings prevent cancer or can they cause other problems?  Check out this recent NY Times article. Years ago, the American Cancer Society used most of their resources to teach us that early self-diagnosis is the best way to prevent cancer.   Years later, the data collected over years of patients visiting their doctors either for screenings or by self-screening led to harmful interventions, unnecessary tests, and in some cases, treatment for a disease that wasn’t. For years, we have been led to believe that annual mammograms, colonoscopies past a certain age, and prostate evaluations and treatment were helpful in Read More »