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50% of Women Had a False-Positive Mammogram After 10 Years

Mammogram screening does not prevent disease and results in many false positives and biopsies without effectively saving lives. You have other choices for screening and options for prevention.

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Dr. Joseph Mercola
Apr 14, 2022
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • Data once again show mammograms don't deliver on the promise of effective breast cancer screening as more than half of women in one study had a false positive after 10 years of testing

  • In addition to the added risk from radiation in mammograms that triggers fatal cancer in up to 25 of 100,000 women, the screening does not efficiently ide…

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