Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Breast cancer screening tied to overdiagnosis

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) A new news suggests that when a breast cancer screening module was rolled out in Norway, adult to 10 women were diagnosed and treated for cancer unnecessarily for any breast cancer genocide that was prevented.
Thats since when doctors shade for cancer in women who dont have symptoms, its unfit for them to tell either a growth picked adult by mammography will grow fast into modernized cancer or will usually swell solemnly or not during all, pronounced lead author Dr. Mette Kalager.
And nonetheless women are familiar in a advantages of mammography, they arent always warned about a probable harms of supposed overdiagnosis and overtreatment, according to Kalager, a breast cancer surgeon and a visiting scientist during a Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
You have to unequivocally cruise a advantage and a mistreat opposite any other, and unequivocally consider through: what is my risk of failing from breast canc...

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