[blogs.scientificamerican.com]
"A 2018 study warned that “more harm than benefit is created for most commonly used tests.” The following passage deserves emphasis: “Screening is big business: more screening means more patients, more clinical revenue to diagnostic and clinical departments, and more survivors in need of care and follow‐up. Critics are met with fierce opposition and not much changes. We believe, however, that a major, radical change is urgently needed after more than four decades of enormous investments and failing expectations.”
Really? Ask somebody who had a cancer detected early...."harm" from a mammogram or sending in a stool sample? Really?
Cancer mortality rates have dropped 27% in 25 years. My sister in law just had a mammogram. They found a small tumor. They got it in the biopsy and she will only have to have radiation. Had she waited another year it would have spread, probably costing her a breast and chemo and maybe worse. These great conspiracy theories always forget that people in the medical professions get the same fucking diseases as the rest of us. My sister in law was an X-ray Tech/CT Tech/ Site Mgr during her 40 some odd years in the business. Our problem is not to many screenings, it's too few screenings. Early detection is everything when it comes to cancer. Because we have a horrible health care system where insurance companies don't like to pay for most screenings. Ladies get those mammos, please.