Breast Cancer
Routine mammograms may result in significant overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 19th, 2012
2012 APR 19 -- Boston, MA - New Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) research suggests that routine mammography screening-long viewed as an essential tool in detecting early breast cancers-may in fact lead to a significant amount of overdiagnosis of disease that would otherwise have proved harmless. Based on a study of women in Norway, the researchers estimate that between 15% and 25% of breast cancer cases are overdiagnosed.
The study appears in the April 3, 2012 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
"Mammography might not be appropriate for use in breast cancer screening because it cannot distinguish between progressive and...
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