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For women who had participated in both of their previous two screening examinations, the incidence of breast cancers proving fatal within 10 years of...
Breast screening For women who had participated in both of their previous two screening examinations, the incidence of breast cancers proving fatal within 10 years of diagnosis was 50 per cent lower than in women who did not attend either of the last two screening examinations. Compared with women who attended only one of the two previous screens, women who attended both had a significant 22-33 per cent reduction in breast cancer mortality. Lead author, Professor Stephen Duffy of Queen Mary’s Wolfson Institute, said: “ While there is ample evidence that breast cancer mortality is reduce...