Are You Being Over-Diagnosed?
Tag: am i getting too much treatment
Are You Being Over-Diagnosed?
(From JAMA) Cancer screenings can find treatable disease at an earlier stage but they can also detect cancers that will never progress to cause symptoms. Detection of these early, slow-growing cancers can lead to unnecessary surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. This begs the question: Are You Being Over-Diagnosed? A survey finds...