Study: Physicians rarely discuss cancer-screening risks

During any screening test, there is a chance of so-called overdiagnosis—finding something that looks like cancer but isn’t, or a cancer that’s so small and slow-growing it would never cause a problem. In those cases, patients may get unnecessary biopsies, surgeries, radiation, or drugs that could come with side effects, known as overtreatment, according to a study at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.

Source: Reuters