785 - Tradeoffs—Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
New screening tools like full-body MRI scans and blood tests claiming to detect over 50 kinds of cancer are generating excitement with their potential to catch diseases early. But is more knowledge about our bodies always beneficial?
Host:
Dan Gorenstein is the founder and executive editor of the Tradeoffs podcast.
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Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools—Podcast
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Bringing Informed Decision-Making to Cancer Screening—Johns Hopkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:33.9 | Two new screening tools are promising to catch diseases earlier than ever before. |
| 0:39.3 | I had no idea that I was at risk for cancer. |
| 0:42.3 | He was shocked when the results came back positive. |
| 0:45.3 | The gallery test found this for me really in the nick of time. |
| 0:48.3 | A full body MRI scan, a blood test to detect more than 50 kinds of cancer. People are getting psyched. |
| 0:56.6 | Take care of something early, you can nip in the bud and then live forever. |
| 1:00.6 | Isn't that our dream to live forever, never die? |
| 1:03.4 | But is knowing more about what's going on in your body always a good thing? |
| 1:08.4 | Today, a primary care doctor breaks down what we do and don't know about |
| 1:13.3 | this new wave of screening tests and the unintended consequences they could have from the |
| 1:20.2 | studio at the Leonard Davis Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. I'm Dan Gornstein. This |
| 1:25.7 | is tradeoffs. |
| 1:39.4 | The 1976 Western The Shoot is Starring John Wayne captures a near universally dreaded diagnosis. |
| 1:45.4 | Every few days I have to tell a man or a woman something I don't want to. |
| 1:50.9 | I've been practicing medicine for 29 years and I still don't know how to do it well. |
| 1:53.6 | Why don't you just say it flat out? |
| 1:54.5 | All right? |
| 1:58.3 | You have a cancer advanced. |
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