With the online publication of an opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, and Brian Reid have triggered a medical, scientific, and policy debate about the definition of “cancer” and strategies for diagnosis and treating cancer. The authors wrote for a working group that was convened by the National Cancer Institute in 2012 to address the problem of overdiagnosis of cancer, when tumors are detected through screening that would otherwise not become clinically apparent or cause death. Read more here.
Article mentioned: Esserman LJ, et al. Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment in CancerAn Opportunity for Improvement. JAMA. Published online July 29, 2013.
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