When you have a hammer, every cancer cell looks like a nail
We know that we may be over-treating some breast cancer patients. But why?
I wrote the other day that there's some possibility that screening mammograms lead to overtreatment of breast cancer. I wouldn’t describe it as a broad consensus among researchers, but it’s fairly well established. And it’s another way in which science does not always drive treatment.
The specific kind of cancer that I have offers the best example of wh…
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