Abstract
Still, according to Barnett Kramer, M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Prevention, majority opinion in the field now holds that false alarms from mammography far outnumber averted deaths. “Give or take a few percentage points, the chance of a false alarm from mammography in the United States is roughly 10%,” he said. “That’s at least an order of magnitude higher than the chance of avoiding death from breast cancer.” And because most mammography trials were launched before advanced treatments such as adjuvant therapy became available, the discrepancy between treatmentand screening-related benefits is probably growing, Kramer added.
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