False Alarms in Screening for Cancer Prove Costly
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A new study found that people spent an extra $1,000 or so on health care in the year after a test screening for cancer raised suspicions that later proved unfounded.
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People who pay for whole-body X-ray scans in the hope of finding tumors at their earliest stages may, ironically, be raising their overall risk of cancer, doctors warned on Tuesday.
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MONDAY, Aug. 23 (HealthDayNews) -- The risk of getting a false positive result on a mammogram is far less than previously estimated, Norwegian research shows.
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People diagnosed with cancer who don't have health insurance are more likely to die because they are less likely to get screening tests and so are typically diagnosed with advanced disease, a new study from the American Cancer Society finds.
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(Undated) Oct. 20, 2004 - There are several methods available to detect breast cancer, but new research finds one may not be effective.
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People who pay for whole-body X-ray  scans in the hope of finding tumors at their earliest stages  may, ironically, be raising their overall risk of cancer,  doctors warned on Tuesday.
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Many lack health insurance because of its cost and a big reason for that cost is the explosion of expensive, medically questionable care.
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the PSA test -- can be unreliable at predicting cancer risk in many men, a new Stanford University study suggests. The
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A new study suggests that screening smokers and former smokers for lung cancer doesn't save lives or prevent advanced disease and may lead to unneeded and harmful treatment.
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TORONTO -- MRI scans find breast cancer twice as well as traditional screening procedures, a Canadian-led study says, but resear-chers say only the most at-risk women should consider the procedure because of its tremendous false positive rate.
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CHICAGO  - Full-body cat scans increase a person&#39;s risk of cancer, according to a study released that raises questions about the rising popularity of these screenings among healthy people.
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Dark-field x-ray imaging could make for more-accurate mammograms and better security screens.
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People having full body scans to find potential health problems may wind up creating one, researchers suggest. Radiation from computed tomography, or CT, scans will result in a modest increase in the risk
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This small biotech provides screens that can help catch cancer.
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Having to pay as little as $10 of a mammogram's cost leads many older women to skip the breast cancer exam, a large study of Medicare users finds.
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For doctors, searching out disease before it appears can also carry risks.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Being screened for prostate cancer more often does improve disease detection overall, but it doesn&#39;t help doctors spot aggressive cancers better, a new study finds.