The Trouble with Cancer Screening in Healthy Adults (opens in new tab)

by at You are an otherwise healthy person, and you want to keep it that way. However, wherever you turn you are being told that your current state of ‘health’ is tentative; You could be sick and not know it. Maybe you have something lurking inside — possibly an early sign of cancer — so shouldn’t you do something? After all, better safe than sorry, right? Consider this statement from Dr. David Sackett in , CMAJ Aug 20, 2002: Preventive medicine displays all 3 elements of arrogance. First, it ...