Each year, seven billion people die from a tumorous disease that invades normal body functions. This disease is the worlds leading cause of death resulting in thirteen percent of deaths worldwide (“Cancer”). What kind of disease is capable of causing so much devastation? That disease goes by the name of cancer. Cancer comes in many different forms like: breast, lung, prostate, skin, and leukemia. Cancer gets harder to cure the later it is found so the sooner it is found, the better. Most common people believe that one way to prevent cancer is by getting screenings early. Getting these screenings is a beneficial way to stay on track with one’s health, but only in moderation. Receiving an excessive amount of cancer screenings can indeed be harmful and it is actually recommended not to overdo screening. Cancer screenings can be detrimental if taken too frequently because they are expensive, unreliable, and in some cases, harmful.
First of all, cancer screenings are expensive, and the more screening a person gets; the more the bills pile up. Everything costs money, and something like personal health is something that anyone would pay large amounts of money for. Why are these screenings so expensive? People believe that receiving screenings will help them prevent cancer(which is untrue), but doctors have started to realize that people would pay anything to keep themselves “healthy”. This gives doctors the option to make these screenings much more expensive (Jameson). Also, the fact that people are uninformed about different screenings makes getting them expensive. A commonly heard screening for colon cancer is known as a colonoscopy. On the bright side, this test detects if cancerous cells are in the colon, but the negative is that ...
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...All in all, cancer screenings are like cookies. They appear good and tempting to have, yet too much of a good thing...isn’t always good.
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Note that the introduction of screening may produce short-term rises (AIHW, Cancer incidence projections) due to greater detection.
As the author highlighted in this book, the quickest way to be diagnosed for prostate cancer is to be screened for it; the same notion applies for many other diseases and illness. With the advent of the technological age, doctors are now able to see more than they did before, and therefore, are more quick to diagnose illnesses and cancers early. As Welch explains, the problem with that is that not all illness or cancers will kill you; some cancers will stick around, but never cause any harm. So, this leads to screening for cancers that were never going to kill a patient, that end up being detected early on and dealt with, thus giving credit to early screening as a success story. As Welch explains, most illnesses and injuries that undertake a natural course of events, without medical intervention, usually heal on their own. This is problematic because it creates this idea that medical intervention is helpful and necessary, when that is not always the case. In general, as a society, the benefits of medical care have been over-exaggerated, while the harms of medical care have been largely ignored. If Welchs’ instructions were followed, a closer examination of the effect of screenings and tests would be the new medical
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We all have duties under the health and safety at work etc 1974 and we
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