We’re Getting Better at Screening for Cancer, and That Could Be a Problem – Popular Science

Read article - Quotes Lisa Schwartz, director of the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and professor of psychiatry and of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article discussing the pitfalls of cancer screening. "For many cancers, we're not good at distinguishing which will be dangerous and which won't," says Schwartz. "If these cancers don't actually go on to progress, the treatment is pure harm." (Picked up by Popular Science Australia.)