Seeking Sickness: Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease
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Continue shopping Checkout Continue shopping. Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. After all, better safe than sorry. Not so fast, says Alan Cassels. Why wouldn't you want to be screened to see if you're at risk for cancer, heart disease, or another potentially lethal condition?.
Seeking Sickness. Medical Screening and the Misguided Hunt for Disease
Most of his work has focused on overdiagnosis in cancer screening. Medical screening for prostate cancer, breast cancer, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and other serious diseases and conditions seem to make sense, and some types of screening are indeed useful if done on the right person at the right time.
Many other such tests are questionable, however, and can even be harmful. Yet every day there are new claims of one medical screening test or another. In this book, Alan Casselsdiscusses the most common and recommended types of screening and weighs the pros and cons of each.
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