Europe should shift focus to bowel cancer screening to save lives: scientists

By Kate Kelland AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - European governments should divert funds to routine bowel cancer tests from less effective breast and prostate screening programs, scientists said on Saturday, presenting what they called "irrefutable" evidence that bowel screening saves lives. Many governments devote significant funds to breast cancer screening, but studies in recent years have found that routine breast mammograms can also lead to so-called "over-diagnosis" when tests pick up tumors that would not have caused a problem. ...



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