Study: Breast cancer overtreatment costs US $4B a year
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sharpening a medical debate about the costs and benefits of cancer screening, a new report estimates that the U.S. spends $4 billion a year on unnecessary medical costs due to mammograms that generate false alarms, and on treatment of certain breast tumors unlikely to cause problems....