Opinion: Screening for ‘hidden’ pancreatic cancer can put people in jeopardy
It's easy to think that early detection is the solution to every disease. It isn't. Early detection can come with sizeable downsides.
“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek’s announcement that he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer has once again turned the spotlight on this cancer, much as Steve Jobs did in 2004. Make no mistake about it: Pancreatic cancer is a bad disease. More than 40,000 Americans die from it each year — more than from breast, prostate, or ovarian cancer. Only lung and colorectal cancer cause more deaths.
In a in the New York Times,
