Breast-cancer overdiagnosis and false-positive mammograms alone rack up $4 billion a year across the country.
Unnecessary or potentially ineffective medical treatment is a hard pill to swallow, but patients can take some proactive steps to avoid it.
Breast-cancer overdiagnosis and false-positive mammograms alone rack up an annual national tab of $4 billion, according to a 2015 analysis of 2011 to 2013 data published in the journal Health Affairs. What’s more, around half of medical treatments are of “unknown effectiveness,” while one in three are either shown to be or likely to be beneficial, according to a 2012 British Medical Journal analysis summarized by an article in the journal Medical Care Research and Review . “Another 7% were rated as trade-offs between benefits and harms, with 6% rated unlikely to be beneficial and another 3% rated likely to be ineffective or harmful,” the MCRR article’s authors added.
Ask if altering your lifestyle is an option prior to starting a pill regimen off the bat, added Marc Siegel, a clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health and Fox News medical correspondent. Can you first consult a dietitian, work out at the gym or start walking more? Prasad, meanwhile, recommends checking out the Cochrane Collaboration, an organization that reviews and summarizes health-care research. Your doctor may also be able to provide informational materials not accessible to patients, he said.
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