Sentence examples for were treated unnecessarily from inspiring English sources

Dr. Ian Thompson, director of the cancer therapy and research center at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and the study's lead author, said that because large numbers of men with low-grade tumors were treated unnecessarily, often with treatments that rendered them impotent or incontinent, there was a benefit to preventing low-grade, nondeadly cancers.

In 2003, patients with a false-positive culture were treated unnecessarily for a median of 7 days (range 0 145).

Of the six patients who had cross-contaminated cultures, five were treated unnecessarily with multiple anti-TB medications.

"Yes, there are probably some people who are treated unnecessarily," he said.

"It's possible that a large part of this group was treated unnecessarily," said Dr. Ray of Johns Hopkins.

Women with these cancers are subject to overdiagnosis - meaning they are treated unnecessarily and harmed by screening.

And there is a 49 in 50 chance that he will have been treated unnecessarily for a cancer that was never a threat to his life.

Tena Walters, 51, consultant, London Breast Clinic Just this week the papers splashed on another piece of research criticising breast cancer screening, saying that for every woman saved by the procedure, up to 10 have been treated unnecessarily.

For every woman who has her life prolonged by screening mammography, five additional women will be treated unnecessarily for a cancer that would never become life-threatening if it had gone undetected.

For every life saved by screening based on the common PSA blood test, 12 to 48 men would be treated unnecessarily for a disease that would never cause them problems.

Just this week the papers splashed on another piece of research criticising breast cancer screening, saying that for every woman saved by the procedure, up to 10 have been treated unnecessarily.