But screening for cancers themselves don’t seem to be helping patients make smart decisions, according to Melissa Beck at the Wall Street Journal. Expanding screenings seems to be picking up on more and more tiny, slow growing cancers rather than aggressive ones. As in the colon cancer screenings studies, the most virulent cancers still escape the expanded screening profiles. “We’re not finding enough of the really lethal cancers, and we’re finding too many of the slow-moving ones that probably don’t need to be found,” says Laura Esserman, a breast-cancer surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco.
Obamaccare realy means BIG BROTHER in your MEDICINE CABNET,BIG BROTHER in the Emergency Room and BIG BROTHER in the Pharacy
So … those small, slow-spreading ones could resolve themselves? Is that what they’re saying? That screening could lead to unnecessary treatment?
Yeah well, like a lotta guys, I have an enlarged prostate….a slow growing cancer which will kill me….maybe in 150 Years.