785 - Tradeoffs—Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

from Public Health On Call · host The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

About this episode: New screening tools like full-body MRI scans and blood tests claiming to detect over 50 kinds of cancer are generating excitement with their potential to catch diseases early. But is more knowledge about our bodies always beneficial? Host: Dan Gorenstein is the founder and executive editor of the Tradeoffs podcast. Show links and related content: Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools—Podcast Does Cancer Screening Save Lives?—Podcast Bringing Informed Decision-Making to Cancer Screening—Johns Hopkins Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website. Follow us: @‌PublicHealthPod on X @‌JohnsHopkinsSPH on Instagram @‌JohnsHopkinsSPH on Facebook @‌PublicHealthOnCall on YouTube Here's our RSS feed

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