Re:Half of women will get a false positive 3D mammogram, stu...
by belorn on Friday March 25, 2022 @08:13PM
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Checking the Wikipedia article, for every woman saved there is 10 women who will get unnecessary surgery and 200 that will get to go through extended testing.
It would be interesting to know the mortality rate of unnecessary breast surgery. I would hope the number is less than 10%, but I suspect it is not an insignificant number of people. Net beneficial, but definitively controversial.
It would be interesting to know the mortality rate of unnecessary breast surgery. I would hope the number is less than 10%, but I suspect it is not an insignificant number of people. Net beneficial, but definitively controversial.