Screening Mammograms Don’t Prevent Breast Cancer Deaths, Study Finds

Los Angeles Times - Coverage on a study by researchers from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Geisel and Harvard, which found that mammogram screening tests aren’t working as hoped. Instead of preventing deaths by uncovering breast tumors at an early, more curable stage, screening mammograms have mainly found small tumors that would have been harmless if left alone. (Similar coverage on NBC News, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and many more.) Read more...