This may explain why more deaths aren't prevented by breast cancer screening

Wednesday, October 28, 2015 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

Although women have been getting mammograms for decades, the incidence of metastatic breast cancer — the kind that has already spread to another organ by the time it is found — has remained essentially unchanged since 1975. Data from the National Cancer Institute show that the rate of new cases...

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