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What’s in a scan? How well are consumers informed about the benefits and harms related to screening technology (CT and PET Scans) in Canada?

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Resource Language: 
English
Media Type: 
Online
Author: 
Alan Cassels
Jaclyn van Wiltenburg
Wendy Armstrong
Publisher: 
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publication Date: 
2009

Argues that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system.

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives [8]
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Available online.
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISBN 978-1-897569-43-6
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http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/2009/Whats_in_a_Scan.pdf [9]
Notes: 
Contains footnotes. 48 pages.

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[9] http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/2009/Whats_in_a_Scan.pdf