Millions Of Women Getting Unnecessary Breast Cancer Treatment; Researchers Say Mammograms To Blame

A new study has yielded some surprising news about breast cancer in the United States: namely, that mammograms are responsible for a rapid increase in breast cancer overdiagnosis. The study, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that breast cancer was overdiagnosed in approximately 1.3 million American women in the past 30 years, including 70,000 women in 2008 alone.

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