Pharma-medical Mal-Practices: Thousands of Women Mislead Into Unnnecessary Breast Cancern Surgery
The British government has been forced to rewrite its advice on breast cancer screening after research showed that thousands of women have been misled into having unnecessary surgery.
Women invited for screening by the National Health Service will be told that some of the cancers detected will be dormant and may never spread to other tissue.
Research published this year showed that for every 2,000 women screened regularly for a decade, one life would be saved but 10 healthy women would be treated unnecessarily. The information now given to women has been criticised for advertising only the benefits and not the risks to encourage women to be screened.
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