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Prostate cancer now kills more people than breast cancer: cause for alarm?

Posted on 9th March 20189th March 2018 by BMJ

‘As epidemiologists, we are not alarmed by the apparent ‘increase’ in deaths from prostate cancer,’ here’s why Jason Oke For the first time in the UK, the number of deaths from prostate cancer has exceeded the numbers of deaths from breast cancer. According to figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS), more […]

Why BRCA screening will harm (some) women

Posted on 24th January 20189th March 2018 by BMJ

‘blindly pursuing early detection risks subjecting a third of diagnosed women to unnecessary harm.’ Jason Oke According to research led by the Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University London, screening all British women over 30 years of age could result in 17,000 fewer ovarian and 64,000 breast cancers over a lifetime. Not only […]