New study suggests that breast cancer screening does not reduce mortality

Fewer women have died from breast cancer in recent years but the decline is just as large in the age groups that are not screened, according to a major Danish-Norwegian study published in the International Journal of Cancer. In the study, the researchers followed all Norwegian women aged 30-89 and identified those who developed breast cancer in the period 1987-2010, before subsequently comparing the number of deaths before and after the screening programme was introduced. As Associate Professor Henrik Støvring from Aarhus University, Denmark, notes, the result does not favour the breast cancer screening programme. This conclusion can also be transferred