Breast cancer screening harming hundreds of women a year: Surgeon

By Julia Medew
Updated May 18 2015 - 10:10am, first published May 6 2015 - 1:53pm
For every older woman whose life is saved by screening for breast cancer, another is treated unnecessarily for a harmless condition.
For every older woman whose life is saved by screening for breast cancer, another is treated unnecessarily for a harmless condition.
For every older woman whose life is saved by screening for breast cancer, another is treated unnecessarily for a harmless condition. Photo: Rui Vieira
For every older woman whose life is saved by screening for breast cancer, another is treated unnecessarily for a harmless condition. Photo: Rui Vieira

Hundreds of Australian women are being "over diagnosed" with breast cancer every year that was never going to cause them harm and about 35,000 are receiving false positive results from mammograms, a leading breast surgeon says.

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