Breast Self-exams Do Not Appear To Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths
Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 23:07
in Health & Medicine
A review of recent studies says there is no evidence that self-exams actually reduce breast cancer deaths. Instead, the practice may be doing more harm than good, since it led to almost twice as many biopsies that turned up no cancer in women who performed the self-exams, compared to women who did not do the exams.
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