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Curing Cancerphobia How Risk Fear And Worry Mislead Us David Ropeik

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Curing Cancerphobia How Risk Fear And Worry Mislead Us David Ropeik
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Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
File Extension: PDF
File size: 4.9 MB
Author: David Ropeik
ISBN: 9781421447407, 9781421447414, 1421447401, 142144741X
Language: English
Year: 2023

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Curing Cancerphobia How Risk Fear And Worry Mislead Us David Ropeik by David Ropeik 9781421447407, 9781421447414, 1421447401, 142144741X instant download after payment.

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 But that fear is in some ways outdated, as it fails to account for the medical progress made against this family of diseases.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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