Better treatment for breast cancer hasn't boosted the benefit of mammograms, study says

Monday, January 11, 2016 - 19:42 in Health & Medicine

The goal of cancer screening is to reduce the number of cancer deaths by finding tumors when they are still small and, presumably, easier to treat. But a new study finds that in the case of breast cancer, improvements in treatment have barely changed the benefit of using mammograms as a screening...

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