Cancer Screening

Alan and Andy discuss cancer screening, focusing on breast and colon.  These screening tests can save lives, but just how much do they help you as an individual, what are the risks, and is there a point in your life that they are not helpful?  Screening for cancer is never as cut and dry as the pundits suggest, like everything in medicine it is cluttered by nuance and uncertainty.  We'll help you better understand these screening tests."The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism."  -William Osler, MDwww.returntohealing.com