Health task force blasted over dangerous guidance for cancer screenings – National [Video]

Medical experts are sounding the alarm about the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, branding the group’s cancer screening guidelines as “dangerous” and “deplorable.”

Speaking at a Monday media conference, a group of medical experts ranging from radiologists to urologists talked about the urgent need to reform the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care for its “outdated screening guidelines,” arguing that hundreds of Canadians are needlessly dying and suffering as a result.

“I regularly see patients who ask to be screened, only to be denied due to the task force recommendation and ultimately presented with an incurable stage of the disease. These patients feel let down by the system, and their physicians live with enormous regret,” said Dr. Fred Saad, a urological oncologist and the director of prostate cancer research at the Montreal Cancer Institute.

“The task force recommendation against screening is outdated, overly simplistic and goes against all other guidelines that encourage shared decision-making …