Cancer screenings may offer no net advantage

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"Yet data has shown that the public has an inflated sense of the benefits and discounted sense of the harms of screening, they write."

Http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-ca...perts.html

I knew a friend of my mom who got fatal breast cancer after a mammogram.  After the procedure she complained how her breast was always hurting.  That was further confirmation to me that physical trauma could itself cause cancer.    My mom had thought physical injury could cause cancer for decades.  If memory serves, she knew a secretary that got a leg tumor from closing file drawers with her knee.

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The esteemed reliability of propaganda from the medical establishment, pharma claims and nutrition / supplement research continues its track record.

"Just wait ten years, and whatever they're promoting or blackballing now will be reversed or cast in doubt." --Older cousin who refuses to participate in prescribed colonoscopy intervals.

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I'm tending toward doing the same as the cousin.

The stories of mistakes are poignant.  Plus, many procedures are an ordeal.

It is rare that anyone cares about a person, especially an adult, as much as the person. One wonders if giving up control for certain medical procedures is worth the risk.

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http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-ou...ality.html
"The researchers found that 5,412 unplanned hospital visits followed outpatient colonoscopies within seven days (16.3/1,000 colonoscopies). Fifteen variables were independently linked to unplanned hospital visits, with the strongest associations seen for a history of fluid and electrolyte imbalance, psychiatric disorders, and increasing age past 65 years in the absence of prior arrhythmia…"