- 12 Feb 2014 12:23
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/healt ... ml?hp&_r=1
If this turns out to be the case, what a massive waste of resources and time over the years. 1/3rd of Australia's state medical funding goes towards breast screening.
One of the largest and most meticulous studies of mammography ever done, involving 90,000 women and lasting a quarter-century, has added powerful new doubts about the value of the screening test for women of any age.
It found that the death rates from breast cancer and from all causes were the same in women who got mammograms and those who did not. And the screening had harms: One in five cancers found with mammography and treated was not a threat to the woman’s health and did not need treatment such as chemotherapy, surgery or radiation.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/healt ... ml?hp&_r=1
If this turns out to be the case, what a massive waste of resources and time over the years. 1/3rd of Australia's state medical funding goes towards breast screening.
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