These cancer patients write their own story
They hurt. They weep. They fly. They soar above the thunderheads. They plunge back to earth. They hold fast to their lovers and their children. They bruise. They burn. They heal. Cancer is not a...
Tag: overdiagnosis
Surprising variability in melanoma diagnostic findings
Although pathologists are likely to agree when evaluating skin biopsies that are benign or highly malignant, they often disagree when lesions fall into intermediate categories, new research finds....
The promise of early detection
Nearly a century ago, a Greek immigrant physician in New York City began refining microscopy techniques for examining cells gently scraped from the female reproductive tract. The results were...
Ambiguous breast biopsies often “overinterpreted”
Pathologists’ tendency to overinterpret breast biopsies may be contributing to the problem of breast cancer overdiagnosis. That’s according to a report this week in Annals of Internal Medicine...
Engineering precision in cancer early detection
Sadik Esener, Ph.D., is the engineer tapped to lead a major new cancer early detection program at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute. Medical science has come up with only a few ways to detect...
How cancer screening may fail to save lives
With the advent of mass screening by Pap smear, cervical cancer incidence and death rates declined by more than 60 percent in the U.S. between 1955 and 1992. It was a triumphant demonstration of the...