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An Ounce of Prevention
Last month, Major League Baseball’s “Father’s Day Home Run Challenge” raised millions of dollars for prostate cancer research.
The league—in the media and at the ballpark—emphasized the importance of both prevention and early detection to save lives.
More important than the money raised was the message, because as Ben Franklin once said, ““An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Or, in modern speak, “A dollar spent on cancer prevention is worth a million dollars in cures.”
Every year, Americans spend billions of dollars treating preventable cancers. Just one example: 60,000 Americans will die of colon cancer this year at a cost of 15 billion dollars. 50,000 of these cancer deaths could be prevented, and 12 billion dollars saved, if the currently recommended screening guidelines were followed.
Let’s spend wisely on prevention, and save lives and money as well.
This is Dr. Bruce Feinberg. Be well.
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