People overestimate benefits of cancer, other prevention aids: study

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Agencies:  Nov 16 2012, 18:47 IST
would no longer cover screening for women in their 40s who wanted it.

The other thing that happens when you have an established screening program for which people have heightened expectations, it becomes very politically difficult to make any changes insofar as recommending reduced access, even when it is pretty convincing that the outcomes are better, Hudson said.

I have a feeling this would all be easier if we could present (patients) with this information, trust them with their decisions and support them in doing so, he added.

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