Cancer Screening in Seniors Yields Few Benefits http://www.medpagetoday.com/Geriatrics/GeneralGeriatrics/47274?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-08-19&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g578717d0r& From the Article: Screening older patients for cancer provided minimal benefit at considerable cost and increased use of invasive procedures, reported investigators in two separate studies The second study showed that reducing the screening colonoscopy interval from 10 to 5 years would lead to a minimal gain […]
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