20 Jan 2015
Do You Know Benefits Verses Risks?
On my homepage blog, I discussed some updates
in cancer screening and presented several theories with a potential to unite
conventional and integrative cancer treatments. It was a pretty big task! The
blog was a result ov a hodgepodge of studies that I came across when I was
evaluating metanalysis in the International
Journal of Epidemiology that
concluded:
Among
currently available screening tests for diseases where death is a common
outcome, reductions in disease-specific mortality are uncommon and reductions
in all-cause mortality are very rare or non-existent. (Systematic
review of meta-analyses and randomized trials.2015 DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyu140)
The goal of my blogs is to …read more