Should I Be Tested for Cancer?: Maybe Not and Here's Why (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 5 stars “This book, written by a credible physician who has done some serious research on this topic, and not written by another dime-a-dozen quack claiming to expose the insider secrets of modern medicine, provides remarkable insight into the logic behind cancer screening, and into a lot of the...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “This book, written by a credible physician who has done some serious research on this topic, and not written by another dime-a-dozen quack claiming to expose the insider secrets of modern medicine, provides remarkable insight into the logic behind cancer screening, and into a lot of the predicaments that medicine, science, and almost any field of scientific inquiry face. If you find a cancer, and treat it (ie, surgically remove it) then you've "cured" the patient of cancer. But cancer is a judgement call by a pathologist looking at random slides under a microscope. Thus, since the cancer was removed, the patient "cured", we never would have known what the removed "cancer" would have done if it was never actually discovered, but it instead it lands into the success column in the statistics on the war against cancer. Dr. Welch provides humorous and touching stories from his own patients that serve as very real anecdotes of the data he convincingly describes. The book is remarkable well written. I would recommend it to all my patients and colleague physicians as well.”

  btarabishy wrote this review Sunday, November 4 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
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  “Sounds like a no-brainer but the answer might surprise you. I love books like this that make me re-evalulate assumptions I thought were "common sense".”

  jcbradley wrote this review Wednesday, August 1 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No