When Is It OK Not to Treat Cancer? – CBS News

Read article - Quotes H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and professor of economics, about cancer survival rates as screening has improved. "Ironically, the more overdiagnosis that a screening test does, the more popular it becomes, because there's more people who feel they are 'survivors' because of screening," says Welch. "Although it happens to be a cancer that was never going to bother them. They'll never know that."