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3 stories tagged "cancer-screening"
The FDA's Former Biologics Chief Says Public Health Can't See the Next Disaster Coming
Vinay Prasad ran the FDA's biologics center until this spring. His warning: the apparatus chases lettuce recalls and measles while a blood test for dozens of cancers heads toward Medicare with its central question unanswered.
CancerThe Inherited Lung Cancer Gene That Rode Out of Appalachia on a Wagon Road
Carriers were about 25 times as likely to develop lung cancer as everyone else, more than 60 times if they never smoked. The variant came over with British and Irish settlers, concentrated in Southern Appalachia after a founder event two centuries ago, and surfaced in a consumer spit-kit database, n
CancerA 34-Year Mammography Advocate Co-Wrote the Study That Shrinks Screening's Biggest Harm
Overdiagnosis, the risk that screening treats cancers that never would have killed you, was pegged as high as 50 percent. A reinterpretation of eight old trials now puts it under 5, with an author who has promoted screening for 34 years.