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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.
by belorn 5y ago
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.