I’m like Glenn Beck meets Margaret Sanger

The New York Times article describing the recommended cuts to cervical and breast cancer screening enrage me in a way that I can’t describe.  I want to be rational about it.  I know that we likely screen too much for certain types of cancer, and I know that it’s costly.  But the part that enrages me is that prostate cancer is easily the most over-screened for cancer.  Easily.  Not only do we over-screen, we also over-treat.  Many patients with prostate cancer would be better off not getting treatment at all, and would probably die of something else before prostate cancer.  I will eat my hat, and yours, on the day when a committee recommends that men not get screened for their men-only cancers.  And no, I’m not suggesting that there is some kind of national conspiracy to promote ill-health in women, but I’m not saying there isn’t.  I’m just saying isn’t it interesting that only I am asking these questions?