So Much Care It Hurts: Unneeded Scans, Therapy, Surgery Only Add To Patients' Ills - Kaiser Health News

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Kaiser Health NewsSo Much Care It Hurts: Unneeded Scans, Therapy, Surgery Only Add To Patients' IllsKaiser Health NewsBekelman's 2014 study in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, found that women given the longer regimen faced nearly $2,900 more in medical costs in the year after diagnosis. The high rate of overtreatment in breast cancer is ...and more »