Cancer Screening Quotes

“When it comes to screening, a doctor who says ‘Let’s err on the side of caution,’ may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.”
― Otis Webb Brawley, How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America

“Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough.”
― H. Gilbert Welch, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

“The only way to know if the screening is saving lives is by doing a randomized trial. It's easy to forget this and assume that if technology can find more cancer, it will save more lives. Marketers exploit this assumption. Don't fall for it.”
― H. Gilbert Welch, Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health

“In normal circumstances, our body maintains a balance between cell growth & cell death. When this balance is disrupted and cells grow uncontrollably, cancer in born!”
― hmzlabs