随着医学科学的日益昌明,人类对早期癌 症的诊断能力越来越强,所能发现的体 内肿瘤越来越小。这种医学上的进步对早期癌症患 者来说理应是件好事,然而最近美国一些医学专家 对这种科学进步所带来的临床效益提出了质疑。 早发现、早治疗一直是医学上对付癌症的信 条。但不少科学家则认为发现过于早期的癌症对患 者来说并非是好事,除非是非治不可的癌症。这听 With the growing medical science, human beings are more and more capable of diagnosing early cancers and smaller and smaller tumors can be found in the body. Such medical advances should be good for early cancer patients, but recently some U.S. medical experts have challenged the clinical benefits of such scientific advances. Early detection, early treatment has always been the medical creed to deal with cancer. But many scientists think finding an early-stage cancer is not a good thing for a patient unless it is a non-curable cancer. Listen