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Long Term Follow-up of Screening Mammography
Mammography screening, compared with clinical breast exam, over a 5 year period did not prevent mortality after 22 years of follow up in a large Canadian study. Overdiagnosis of a clinically insignificant cancer was seen in 23 in every 10,000 screened women.
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