It turns out that breast cancer, like some other cancers, may spontaneously resolve on its own far more than oncologists want to admit. The recent study compares one group of nearly 120,000 women, aged 50-64, who were getting mammograms regularly, with another group of 110,000 women of the same age who were screened just once at the end of a six year period. What they found is that the group who was screened regularly had 22% more invasive breast cancers than the ones who were not. In situ cancers were excluded.
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