Early Detection Testing?
Chance of Harm Is 100%
Chance of Benefit Is < 1 in a 1000

The lifesaving benefit from the early detection of cancer is over-exaggerated and the harms are way understated. At the very most, the reward you may gain by testing will be to reduce your chance of dying from a cancer, in the far distant future, by one death for every one to two thousand examinations. But the harms caused to you begin the very moment you allow the medical testing businesses to enter your life. Common examples of early detection methods are: prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood tests for prostate cancer, mammograms for breast cancer, and colonoscopies for colon polyps and cancers. A positive result from any of these exams will be immediately followed by a biopsy in order to make the diagnosis. Simply identifying the cancer will change your life for the worse, and maybe forever.

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