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Confronting the Breast Cancer Mammography Dilemma

Posted on February 13, 2014 by David Dobbs · 1 Comment

  How to balance the risk of missing a cancerous tumor with the risk of treating — at substantial human cost — when treatment may be unnecessary or futile? The new Canadian study of mammography, published Tuesday in BMJ, sharpens this question once again. Most of us who’ve been around a while know people, some […]

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