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Cancer Screening is Essentially Useless; Experts Finally Begin Questioning Sanity of "Routine Screening"

November 17, 2009 by Mabel Ray  
Filed under Health


(NaturalNews) Cancer experts are expressing increasing concern over the explosion of campaigns urging people to get regularly screened for a wide variety of cancers, warning that such programs may do more harm than good. “It is a real problem,” said Otis W. Brawley of the American Cancer Society. “They are doing things that might actually harm the people they want to help.” Brawley made his comments about supporters of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s bill that would mandate an education program to promote breast cancer self-screening among young women. But the comments could just as easily apply to supporters of the American Urological Association’s ad campaign urging prostate cancer screening, or the Light of Life Foundation’s ads promoting screening for thyroid cancer. There are now campaigns to promote regular screening for nearly every variety of cancer, based on the widespread popular belief that early detection of cancer is important in saving lives. Yet experts note that for the…

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