Indeed, it's worth reading some of the stuff people like Otis Webb Brawley have written on the subject. Early screening for prostate cancer has indeed reduced

Indeed, it's worth reading some of the stuff people like Otis Webb Brawley have written on the subject. Early screening for prostate cancer has indeed reduced the deaths attributed to that disease — because the resulting treatments are killing patients before the cancer could. It's not always as simple as it seems.