Reposted by Nikhil Mayor
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Whilst Chris Hoy’s #prostatecancer diagnosis and prognosis is very sad, experts advise that screening programmes need to be backed up by evidence for the biggest benefit:risk in the population.
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Chris Hoy and cancer screening: is celebrity campaigning a bad way to make policy?
The response to the Olympian’s call for wider access to prostate cancer screening has been largely uncritical, Margaret McCartney finds
Media coverage has been rightly sympathetic to Chris Hoy, one o...
