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February 12, 2014

Study Casts Doubt on Effectiveness of Mammograms 
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New medical research has cast doubt on the value of mammograms, the test
used to screen for breast cancer. A wide-ranging study in the British
Medical Journal involving nearly 90,000 women has found death rates,
both from breast cancer and other causes, were the same regardless of
whether a woman underwent mammograms or not. In fact, the study found
one-in-five women whose cancers were detected by mammograms in the early
1980s were "over diagnosed" and underwent unnecessary treatment for
slow-growing cancers that did not pose a threat to life expectancy.

 

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