Weekend Roundup: Cancer Misdiagnosis & Overdiagnosis
Exploring uncertainties in oncology diagnostics
After being off-cycle for several weeks due to a very dense summer travel and locum schedule, we’re back with a regular Weekend Roundup. For this issue, I will be discussing several recent articles that deal with the gray areas in cancer diagnosis: How often is a patient told they have cancer when they actually don’t? How do patients navigate the ambiguity of being told they have a form of cancer, but it is not an immediate problem? When we are performing early screening for cancer, are we actually saving lives?
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