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Article: Here's the sweet spot in cancer screening?
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- October 26, 2009
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Among the more prominent and potentially most befuddling medical
news items of the past week was an article in the New York Times, in
turn based on a paper in the current issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association, calling into question the value of
screening for breast and prostate cancer. What made the Times
article especially provocative was that it expressed doubts about
the benefits of screening raised by the American Cancer Society
itself. After all, if there weren't something productive to do about
cancer, the ACS would have little reason to exist. So, the society
has tended to be in the vanguard of those recommending screening.
Disconcerting though it may seem, such ...