BreastScreen: balancing benefits and harms

Friday, November 4, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

New research has questioned the relative impact of mammographic screening in reducing deaths from breast cancer, concluding that it is not responsible for most of the recent reduction in mortality rates and may in fact cause unnecessary surgery through over-diagnosis.

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