Sunday, August 7, 2011

BMJ article questions benefit of mammography


Recent article published in the July, British Medical Journal, has raised some controversy by  comparing the reduction in breast cancer deaths from 1989 to 2006 in several Northern European countries and concluded that improved disease management – not mammography – could most likely be credited with the decrease in deaths. Responding to this in a joint statement  ACR and the Society of Breast Imaging concluded that study had several flaws. Detailed ACR statement

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