Reuters In a move that
threatens to further inflame concerns about the rationing of medical
care, the nation's leading association of cancer physicians issued a
list on Wednesday of five common tests and treatments that doctors
should stop offering to cancer patients. The list emerged from a
two-year effort, similar to a project other medical specialties are
undertaking, to identify procedures that do not help patients live
longer or better or that may even be harmful, yet are routinely
prescribed. As much as 30 percent
of health-care spending goes to procedures, tests, and hospital stays
that do not improve a patient's health, according to a 2008 analysis by
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