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Prop. 8 in Federal Court

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Early Cancer Screening
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that aggressive early screening for breast cancer and prostate cancer may do more harm than good. We discusses whether recommendations for healthy people to get screened should be changed.

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Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • George Sledge, professor of oncology and co-director of the breast cancer program at Indiana University
  • J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society
  • Laura Esserman, director of the Breast Care Center at UCSF and lead author of the new study

 

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