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by vc8f6vVV
1018 days ago
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> 1. Screening mammography has been proven to reduce cancer specific mortality in many studies. So let's assume that an annual X-ray caused another cancer in women who would never develop breast cancer (i.e. 87% of them). You are saying "we don't know", but the authors of that paper are trying to answer exactly that. We may have saved lives in 13% group (that would be < 2.5% of those dying from breast cancer), but may have lost some lives in 87% group. According to the paper the net outcome is around 0. |
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