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"WHETHER IT BENEFITS PATIENTS OR NOT, cancer testing INFLATES FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL There are two reasons why five-year survival might go up without any change in the cancer death rate. The first is that patients are being diagnosed with kidney cancer earlier in life, but they die at the same age. The second—and this is the kicker—is that some patients are diagnosed with kidney cancer who never would have been before. They have pseudo-disease: a cancer that was never destined to cause symptoms, much less kill them." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "So by finding more cancer, cancer testing may indirectly inflate apparent cancer mortality. Ironically, testing is likely responsible for much of the rising mortality of cancers we just couldn't "see" 50 years ago: cancer of the esophagus, liver, pancreas, kidney, and brain. Then there's the question of what counts as a cancer death. If we are really interested in capturing true progress in cancer, cancer mortality should include not only deaths from cancer but also deaths from cancer treatment." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "And it is the least subject to spurious influence of new cancer testing that inflates both incidence and five-year survival. Simply put: it is much easier to be certain about who dies of cancer than it is to be certain about who really has the disease and when it actually starts. But even mortality can be problematic. Although there is no ambiguity about which people die and when, there is some ambiguity about why they die. First, simply knowing that a person has cancer influences how doctors determine the cause of death." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.) "A DOCTOR BECOMES A PATIENT While the cancer testing process doesn't pose a great deal of physical risk, it can be pretty uncomfortable and scary. The chairman of radiology at Emory University recently had the misfortune of experiencing firsthand the kinds of problems that can follow a screening test. It is a story best told in his own words, excerpted from a letter published in a radiology journal.21 What is often missing from radiologists' thoughts is firsthand experience with the clinical drama that follows screening or diagnostic tests." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"In 1998, the University of Pennsylvania's genetics laboratory had to shut down its breast cancer testing programme when Myriad Genetics threatened it with patent infringement if it used the BRCA genes. And, according to Krimsky, the NHS was faced with a price hike from £960 to screen for the two genes in 1997 to the £2,400 ($4,320) Myriad Genetics was charging the following year.24 As it happens, the company never enforced its rights. Nevertheless, the stakes were high, and people like Sulston were astounded public opinion should not be overwhelmingly with the public camp." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

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