Japan became the first country to mandate urine screening all infants for neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system primarily found in children younger than

Japan became the first country to mandate urine screening all infants for neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system primarily found in children younger than age 5 The result was overdiagnosis, unnecessary treatment inflicted on infants, infant deaths due to side-effects of treatment and no improvement in outcome. A Halt to Neuroblastoma Screening in Japan http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200405063501922#t=article http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200405063501922#t=a...