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A rare honest explanation of the pros and cons of mammography screening.

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-MAR-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Printed materials designed to inform women about the need for regular screening mammograms are notorious for not mentioning the harms as well as the benefits of early breast cancer detection. A ground-breaking exception has just been made freely available at the Web site of the Nordic Cochrane Centre of Denmark (www.cochrane.dk).

The "leaflet" comes from a research team led by Peter C. Gotzsche, DrMedSci, director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, which found that the major risk to screening mammograms is overdiagnosis--that is, unnecessary...

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