Why cancer screening has never been shown to "save lives"--and what we can do about it

BMJ. 2016 Jan 6:352:h6080. doi: 10.1136/bmj.h6080.

Authors

Vinay Prasad¹, Jeanne Lenzer², David H Newman³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA prasad@ohsu.edu.
² New York, USA.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

PMID: 26740343
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h6080

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Attitude to Health
Diagnostic Errors
Early Detection of Cancer / mortality*
Humans
Incidental Findings
Neoplasms / mortality
Occult Blood
Public Opinion
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Sample Size
Stress, Psychological