Sunday, September 8, 2013

Screening mammorgaphy has not reduced deaths from breast cancer

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23757734


 2013 Jun 10;346:f3780. doi: 10.1136/bmj.f3780.

Screening has not reduced deaths from breast cancer, study shows.




Mammographic screening has not had any effect, so far, on breast cancer mortality at the population level in England, a new analysis concludes.
Researchers from the Department of Public Health at Oxford University analysed mortality data before and after the breast cancer screening programme was introduced in 1988.


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