Seriously irritating health reporting by one of my favorite health reporters


	Seriously irritating health reporting by one of my favorite health reporters

julep2323

10-21-2009 3:10 PM

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cancer, research

julep2323 says:

I hate media reporting about health and medicine

Why on earth was this article written without distinguishing between breast and prostate cancer screening at all? There is a difference between the "exaggeration" of risk and benefit claims regarding an effective, proven, life-saving screening test (mammography) and the "exaggeration" of claims regarding an as yet unproven, probably pointless screening test with serious side effects (prostate cancer screening). Sure, both don't work as well as most public health messages claim. But one actually works! ARGH!

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