Breast Cancer Screening Less Accurate in Survivors

Reuters


NEW YORK – Screening mammography is less accurate at spotting breast cancer if a woman has had the disease before, according to a new government-funded study.

Breast cancer survivors are more likely to develop new tumors than women without a history of breast cancer, but little is known about screening in this group.

The new results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, are based on information from the largest

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