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The mammogram dilemma

By H. GILBERT WELCH IN THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

There is growing evidence that screening mammograms aren’t all they’ve been cracked up to be. This month it was “More Mammograms, More Problems” —a study showing that screening every year (instead of every other) didn’t produce any benefit but did produce twice as many false alarms and twice as many biopsies. A few weeks earlier, another study (which I co-authored ) suggested that roughly one-third of breast cancers diagnosed under ...

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  • Headline: The mammogram dilemma
  • Publication: Perspective, Pages 77 on 03/03/2013
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