The Risks of Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis

Breast cancer takes many forms — some indolent and harmless, and some very aggressive and lethal that grow and spread rapidly. Because a screening mammogram is a snapshot in time, it is more likely to catch a slow-growing cancer than a fast-growing one. In other words, it leads to overdiagnosis because of its tendency to detect the cancers that are unlikely to be harmful.

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