The American College of Radiology is outrageously irresponsible in its assertion that “countless American women may die needlessly from breast cancer each year” if the new USPSTF recommendations are followed. So much for the Hippocratic oath of 34,000 doctors - screening results in overtreatment, which, as has been known for a long time, can cause a great deal of harm.
The decision by a federal appeals court in New York to reject Myriad Genetics’ and the University of Utah’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit against them was a small step toward the inevitable recognition that uncreated biological information should not be patentable.
There might just be finally enough data about cancer screening to tip the balance toward a more intelligent and nuanced way of looking at cancer.
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