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New Pap test guidelines
I doubt many women have had the pros and cons of the Pap test explained to them by their doctors. Nor are we told how rare cervical cancer is. We have been lead to believe that Pap testing is reason...
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Prostate cancer treatment misused
Hot flashes, weakness, fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression are the “substantial unintended side effects” of ADT, aka chemical castration. The VA study is not the first to link ADT to an...
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Overtreatment of thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer incidence has tripled since the 1970s. Most of the increase is attributed to the introduction of diagnostic ultrasound and fine-needle aspiration biopsies. Use of these two procedures...
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Best place for cancer death—home
Which is the best place to die of cancer---home or hospital? This crucial question was answered in an unusual study that looked not only at the quality of remaining life for the dying cancer patients...
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Cancer screening tests right to the grave
The tests most commonly given to advanced cancer patients were predicable. Mammography was number one, received by nearly 9% of the women with advanced cancer, with the Pap test running a close second...
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