The medical profession without trying it for real runs the risk of not being fully correct in downplaying the benefits for early detection while up playing the possibilities of wasting money on none beneficial new technologies. Does it sound like the insurance companies trying to save money and increase profits for the insurance companies themselves? Most new technologies have to be fine tuned through a period of usage to optimize they effectiveness while to minimize inappropriate areas of use. It is hard of anybody including doctors to just sit around and come up with the refinements without actually using the new technologies. Plus, there is a lot of politics in medicine as big pharma, insurance companies, political parties, and even religious groups are trying to advance their own agendas, which may not be in the best interest of the people. Look at the news on health reform and see how political medicine has become. The fact is that about half a million people in the US alone died of cancer every year. Cancer is starting to over take heart disease as the number one killer in the US. Any body, except those with agendas, will agree that medical improvements are needed for detecting and treating cancer.
