Thursday, October 27, 2011

When Breast Cancer Tests Get It Wrong

An excerpt from CNN.com

An excerpt from CNN.com Imagine going in for a cancer screening, and the technician turns to you and says, "We're finished, but if I push this button over here, the machine can detect even smaller cancers. But here's the hitch: You have to pay $700 if you want me to push this button."

"You'd be enraged," says Ellen Matloff, director of cancer genetic counseling at Yale University Cancer Center. "You'd want to know why you have to pay extra to push that button. Why didn't they just do it right the first time?"

Click the above light blue link to read the full article at cnn.com