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...results confirmed the value of annual screening in detecting cancer. After seven years, 2,820 cases of cancer were caught in the group that had been instructed to have annual checkups, vs. 2,322 in the group that was left on its own - a difference of 22%. The reasonable conclusion is not that the second group just happened to be healthier but that a significant share of their cancers went undetected. So case closed, right...
...necessarily - at least not when you consider mortality. At the end of the seven years, 50 men in the screening group had died of prostate cancer, compared with 44 in the other group; at the end of 10 years, those numbers were 92 to 82. There were actually more deaths in the screening group, but the differences were too small to be statistically significant; in other words, it was a wash...
...test or manual exam is, Which group does he belong to? The NCI admits that screening tests alone cannot determine which tumors are deadly, and researchers won't know until they follow the study's entire sample group to see how all the men fare well beyond the seven- or 10-year point - which is their plan. Perhaps some whose cancer was not a problem at the decade mark will be claimed by the disease five or 10 years later. "We need longer follow-ups to determine if more screening will translate to fewer deaths," says Berg...
...Andriole recommends a screening approach tailored to the particular patient. "If the man sitting in front of me was an elderly man with a medical condition and he looked like he had a limited life expectancy - say seven to 10 years," Andriole says, "I think I could have a good conscience in telling him that the PSA test is not necessarily...
...drove a Plymouth minivan and was a dynamite gourmet cook. In another, she was a terrorist-and a totem of the age of violent radicalism that erupted during the 1970s. Olson - nee Kathleen Ann Soliah, the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive - was released Tuesday from a California state prison, seven years after pleading guilty to participating in a deadly bank robbery and planting pipe bombs under police cars...