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Although the number of women who die from breast cancer is steadily decreasing, there is ?no evidence? to suggest this is because of screening programmes first introduced in 1988, researchers from Oxford University said.
A study of death rates found that the largest drop in mortality has been in women under the age of 40, who are not routinely screened for the disease. While screening can benefit individual women, it is making little difference at a national level and other factors such as better treatment are likely to be behind improving survival, researchers said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ast-cancer-screening-fails-to-cut-deaths.html
A study of death rates found that the largest drop in mortality has been in women under the age of 40, who are not routinely screened for the disease. While screening can benefit individual women, it is making little difference at a national level and other factors such as better treatment are likely to be behind improving survival, researchers said.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...ast-cancer-screening-fails-to-cut-deaths.html