Controversial U.S. guidelines for mammography issued in 2009, calling for breast cancer screening every two years rather than annually for women over 50 years old, can result in potentially deadly cancers being missed, according to a new study by U.S. researchers. Their analysis refutes the warnings by some public health experts that too-frequent mammograms can lead to the unnecessary treatment of tumors that may not have been life threatening.

According to the study of more than 43,000 women … [Read More]

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