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News · 07-16-2008, 10:00 AM

Regular breast self-examination does not reduce death from breastcancer and may actually have a harmful effect by increasing thenumber of biopsies performed for benign disease, suggests ananalysis of data from two large studies.

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07-16-2008, 10:00 AM	#1
News Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 18,981	Breast self-exams do not cut breast cancer deaths Regular breast self-examination does not reduce death from breastcancer and may actually have a harmful effect by increasing thenumber of biopsies performed for benign disease, suggests ananalysis of data from two large studies. More...