But that means that widespread screening for prostate and breast cancer has resulted in huge numbers of patients suffering the side effects of unnecessary medicine.

The incidence rate, after increasing for two decades, leveled off, and the death rate actually fell, possibly because of more widespread screening and use of multiple therapies.

For that reason, some said, they would not recommend that widespread screening for prostate cancer be carried out in the United States until more data are available.

Despite the new finding, experts remain wary of widespread genetic screening.

This makes it potentially a feasible test for widespread screening.

The number of deaths from cervical cancer has decreased since widespread screening with the Pap test (Pap smear) began.

Editor,- Fritz H Schröder makes a cogent case against widespread screening for cancer of the prostate.

Trial lawyers respond that if silicosis claims are rising, it is because of more widespread screening and a greater awareness of legal rights.

The cost should allow widespread screening of children with sickle cell disease, he said, once he and others have confirmed the device's effectiveness.

Healthy Start officials said they had heard concern from outside the state that the program's widespread screening could be viewed as an invasion of privacy.