A new study has once again confirmed the controversial finding that breast screenings are probably causing more harm than good.
An earlier 2009 review found that screening led to 30% overdiagnosis and overtreatment. The effective result is that, for every 2000 women screened over the course of 10 years, one will have her life prolonged and 10 healthy women will be treated unnecessarily. More than 200 of the women will have false positive findings. The more recent research confirmed these results.
According to Green Med Info:
“What is perhaps most disturbing about these findings is that, while they clearly call into question the safety and effectiveness of breast screenings, the studies upon which they are based use an outdated radiation risk model, which minimizes by a factor of 4-5 the carcinogenicity ... What this indicates, therefore, is that breast screenings are not just ‘causing more harm than good,’ but are planting seeds of radiation-induced cancer within the breasts of millions of women.”