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10-30-2012, 12:12 PM
Routine breast cancer screening does reduce death risk, an independent panel of experts reported in The Lancet. However, the practice also results in overdiagnosis; cases of women with false positive results, having to have unnecessary biopsies and other interventions, or patients undergoing treatment for harmless tumors...

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