Curing Cancerphobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us by David Ropeik

Curing Cancerphobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us by David Ropeik | 2.27 MB
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Title: Curing Cancerphobia
Author: David Ropeik
Year: N/A

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Our fear of cancer causes great harm to individual health and to society.
The fear of cancer is understandable. But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases. In Curing Cancerphobia, David Ropeik reveals the fascinating historical and psychological roots of our fear of cancer and documents the dramatic health and financial harms caused when that fear exceeds the risk.
Fear of cancer drives millions for whom screening is not recommended to screen for the disease anyway, producing tens of thousands of emotionally damaging false positives and costing the US health care system an estimated $9.2 billion a year. At the same time, fear of cancer also causes many people for whom screening is recommended to avoid it altogether.
Modern screening technologies often identify cancers that do not spread or that grow so slowly they almost certainly will never cause harm in a person's...

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