Articles about Screening

Launched in July 2022, Sensible Medicine is a Substack newsletter for people interested in medicine, health policy, outcomes, human biology, drug development, translational science, medical ethics, and science communication. All of Dr. Cifu’s contributions to the site can be found here.

Dr. Cifu has written extensively about screening tests.

• Characteristics of a Successful Screening Test

• I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection Part 1: A critical appraisal of a study of Grail's Galleri test

• I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection Part II: All the reasons I am afraid

• I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection Part III: Peter Attia, national guidelines vs. personalized care, and what I can actually tell patients

• Screening Can Do Silent Harm

• Screening Can Do Silent Harm Part II

• The Ethics of PSA Testing and Cancer Screening

• The PSA Screening Test and Humility (by John Mandrola)