Cancer Screening: Does It Really Save Lives?
Posted by rtrafaelmd on 06 Jul 2009 at 12:00 am | Tagged as: Cervical Cancer, Others
False positives lead to confirmatory testing such as ultrasound of the breast and prostate, CT scan of the lung, colonoscopy, and colposcopy of the cervix . These tests are at best inconvenient and at worst extremely unpleasant, as anyone who’s had … It’s human nature, when given a diagnosis of cancer , to want to get rid of it. But prostate cancer treatment is not benign. Surgical complications include difficulty urinating (17 percent), urinary incontinence (28 percent), …
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Cancer Screening: Does It Really Save Lives?
