Over the past few months hospital support for community screening events has markedly deteriorated. The harsh truth of the overtreatment epidemic brought about through the indiscriminate application of mass screening can no longer be ignored, leaving the only reasoning for support of such events (outside of a research setting) being marketing for urology practices. BTW [...]
Over the past few years, I've been taking a hard look at mass screening programs. Educational surveys showed that almost 40% of participants believed screening to be preventive in that they would actually prevent prostate cancer - that they could stop it from happening, like a vaccine - by screening. Over 85% believed abnormal screening [...]
Earlier this year my mom was in a terrible care accident. She miraculously survived with multiple fractures. Were this to
