Breast screening benefits 'a myth' as 7,000 women a year are wrongly told they have cancer
By Jenny Hope
Last updated at 11:49 PM on 19th January 2010
Checks: All women aged between 50 and 70 are offered breast cancer screening
More than 7,000 women a year screened for breast cancer are wrongly told they have the disease, it was claimed yesterday.
一年超過7000名婦女在乳癌檢查後，被錯誤告知她們患有疾病，昨日宣稱。
The misdiagnoses lead to unnecessary treatment, including mastectomies.
誤診導致不必要的治療，包括切除乳房。
After an independent review of the NHS programme for women aged 50 to 69, scientists concluded that the benefits of screening have been exaggerated and women are not warned of the potential harms from having regular checks.
在一個為國民保健婦女50至69歲計劃的獨立檢討後，科學家得出結論是素描的好處被誇大了，和婦女不被警告有關定期檢查的潛在傷害。
It says there is 'no convincing evidence' to support the Department of Health's assertion that screening saves 1,400 lives a year.
它說那裡'沒有令人信服的證據'，去支持衛生署的說法，即素描檢查一年救回1400人的生命。
Improvements in breast cancer survival in recent years are more likely to be attributable to advances in treatment rather than screening, says the review by the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen.
Under the NHS breast screening programme, women aged 50-69 are invited for routine mammograms, or X-rays, every three years. Altogether 1.7million year take up the invitation.
Controversy has increased in recent years about the benefits, with critics complaining women are told too little about possible harms such as unnecessary biopsies.
More worryingly, they include treatment for a disease a woman does not have or for slow-growing or dormant tumours that would not have produced any symptoms in her lifetime.
Screening picks up more cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) - cancer in cells lining the milk ducts that has not spread - than would normally be found because it is often symptomless.
Doctors are uncertain about the best way to treat them and accept some would never become life-threatening cancers.
Yet half of women diagnosed with DCIS have a breast removed.
The review found 21,000 women in the 50 to 69 age group had breast cancer diagnosed by screening in 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244333/Thousands-women-undergo-unnecessary-gruelling-breast-cancer-treatment.html
More than 7,000 women a year screened for breast cancer are wrongly told they have the disease, it was claimed yesterday.
一年超過7000名婦女在乳癌檢查後，被錯誤告知她們患有疾病，昨日宣稱。
The misdiagnoses lead to unnecessary treatment, including mastectomies.
誤診導致不必要的治療，包括切除乳房。
After an independent review of the NHS programme for women aged 50 to 69, scientists concluded that the benefits of screening have been exaggerated and women are not warned of the potential harms from having regular checks.
在一個為國民保健婦女50至69歲計劃的獨立檢討後，科學家得出結論是素描的好處被誇大了，和婦女不被警告有關定期檢查的潛在傷害。
It says there is 'no convincing evidence' to support the Department of Health's assertion that screening saves 1,400 lives a year.
它說那裡'沒有令人信服的證據'，去支持衛生署的說法，即素描檢查一年救回1400人的生命。
Improvements in breast cancer survival in recent years are more likely to be attributable to advances in treatment rather than screening, says the review by the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen.
Under the NHS breast screening programme, women aged 50-69 are invited for routine mammograms, or X-rays, every three years. Altogether 1.7million year take up the invitation.
Controversy has increased in recent years about the benefits, with critics complaining women are told too little about possible harms such as unnecessary biopsies.
More worryingly, they include treatment for a disease a woman does not have or for slow-growing or dormant tumours that would not have produced any symptoms in her lifetime.
Screening picks up more cases of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) - cancer in cells lining the milk ducts that has not spread - than would normally be found because it is often symptomless.
Doctors are uncertain about the best way to treat them and accept some would never become life-threatening cancers.
Yet half of women diagnosed with DCIS have a breast removed.
The review found 21,000 women in the 50 to 69 age group had breast cancer diagnosed by screening in 2007
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1244333/Thousands-women-undergo-unnecessary-gruelling-breast-cancer-treatment.html
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