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Excess cancer screening leads to wasted funds
Excess cancer screening leads to wasted funds
26 September 2022
“Screening is not prevention, it is fishing for asymptomatic foci of cancers, half of which are not programmed to progress. This leads to overdiagnosis and overtreatment,” wrote Professor Michael Baum (UCL Surgery and Interventional Science).
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