What Doctors Don't Tell YouFurther evidence that breast screening for women aged under 50 is of little value has come from a Canadian study. Researchers there have found that mammograms may miss breast cancer if the woman i ...
A new procedure for testing for cancer of the colon is worse than the standard test it would have replaced, researchers have discovered. ...
As we've been pointing out for the past five years, prostate screening cannot prevent cancer, and may even be doing more harm than good. ...
Although ovarian cancer is the major killer among the gynecological malignancies and nearly 14,000 women died from it last year in the US, screening tests are still ineffective and do nothing to r ...
Screening for ovarian cancer has dubious benefits and may even be harmful to women, so should not be considered without further research. ...
Screening for ovarian cancer may do more harm than good, the American National Institutes of Health has declared. As a result, American women are unlikely to be offered routine screening for the d ...
The prostate cancer test, PSA, can give false readings if the man has ejaculated in the previous two days. The test can produce a false positive reading, which can lead to unnecessary prostate bi ...
Men who have had vasectomies are at greater risk of developing prostate cancer, according to two US studies of more than 73,000 men (The Lancet, 20 February 1993). ...
PSA: A test too far and wide
The idea of "watchful waiting" as a method of dealing with prostate cancer has gained more ground following a study in Sweden, which has the world's fourth highest death rate from the cancer. ...
