H. Gilbert Welch

Aug 21, 2024 | statnews.com | Adewole S. Adamson |Vishal Patel |H. Gilbert Welch

For years, Black Americans have been more likely to die of cancer than white Americans. There is a widespread belief that cancer screening — tests to detect hidden cancer — can reduce this Black-white disparity. While it is important to be attentive to racial disparities in health and health care, the belief in screening is misguided. More cancer screening primarily serves the interests of the health care system, not those of Black Americans.

Aug 6, 2024 | acpjournals.org | H. Gilbert Welch

This article is freely available through 23 August 2024. Reporters often ask me whether anyone has estimated the annual cost of cancer screening in the United States, and I have regretted having no estimate to offer. In this issue, we get one: $43 billion in 2021 (1).

Aug 28, 2023 | jamanetwork.com | H. Gilbert Welch |Tanujit Dey

Testing Whether Cancer Screening Saves Lives: Implications for Randomized Clinical Trials of Multicancer Screening Lifetime Gained With Cancer Screening—Reply Michael Bretthauer, MD, PhD; Michal F. Kaminski, MD, PhD; Mette Kalager, MD, PhD Lifetime Gained With Cancer Screening Hermann Brenner, MD, MPH; Michael Hoffmeister, PhD Lifetime Gained With Cancer Screening Ernst J. Kuipers, MD, PhD; Manon C. W.