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Study Finds Mammograms Detect Few Cancers, Produce Many False Positives In Younger Women

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06 May 2010
Mammograms detect few breast cancers in women younger than age 40 and often lead to more tests and unwarranted anxiety because of false positives, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the [...]

Screening Mammograms In Younger Women Have Low Accuracy And Detect Few Cancers

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Caroline McNeil
Journal of the National Cancer Institute
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04 May 2010
Screening mammograms in women under age 40 result in high rates of callbacks and additional imaging tests but low rates of cancer detection, according to a study published online May 3 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Many studies have [...]