When health screening has a downside

Friday, November 20, 2009 - 23:07 in Health & Medicine

Routine cancer testing saves lives, but it also leads to biopsies, surgeries, radiation, even deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. But experts' reevaluations are met with public angst. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

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