Touching personal medical stories are no substitute for science
4 April 2018
Routine screening for prostate cancer seems like a good thing, but for every life saved many more are blighted by unnecessary treatments
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How medicine got too good for its own good
4 April 2018
We’re detecting problems too early and convincing healthy people they’re sick – it’s time to rethink medical diagnosis, says physician H. Gilbert Welch
Ten ‘one-stop shop’ cancer diagnosis centres planned for England
3 April 2018
England is to get specialist cancer diagnosis centres, which aim to more quickly diagnose people who have non-specific symptoms like weight loss and fatigue
Newly-discovered human organ may help explain how cancer spreads
27 March 2018
A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help move cancer cells around the body
