Cancer screenings for women in their 40s
Cancer screenings may be beneficial, but may also cause harms
Tara Haelle from National Geographic reports "Joann Elmore, an internal medicine physician at the University of California Los Angeles who specializes in studying cancer screenings, says it’s important to understand that cancer screenings have harms in addition to benefits."
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