Women who were a mammogram are less likely to die of breast cancer, but also more chances of being found and treated a cancer that threatens their health, according to a new review of six trials involving ofWomen half a million means that for every 2,000 women who underwent mammography in a live 10 years longer with diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, but 10 will receive unnecessary treatment, the doctors explained Peter C. Gotzsche and M. Nielsen, Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen.
"It is unclear whether the control studies help more than harm For women who were recommended such controls, they should report the risks and benefits," he wrote.
