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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (7706)7/23/2009 4:41:18 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
>> How long might you have had prostate cancer before a screening picks it up?

I think PSA can pick it up earlier than that, no?

I wasn't trying to make the case for more intensive screenings than whatever the medical community suggests -- I certainly don't have that kind of knowledge.

Just seems to me that if you have a group of people who get regular screenings and a group who doesn't, you can figure out statistically what the value of the screenings might be.

Obviously, the common cancers like lung, colon, prostate, breast, etc., are more likely to have meaningful data than some of the more obscure ones like bile duct cancer.

Cancer research is such a complicated area -- both medically and statistically -- that I wouldn't pretend to know anything about it.
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