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A new study relesaed by the National Cancer Institute attributes 28 to 65 percent of the reduction in death rates from breast cancer to screening through mammograms.

The study comes out today in the New England Journal of Medicine. You can read more about it here.

The rest of the reduction in breast cancer deaths is attributed to new drug treatments. More than 80 percent of women over 40 regularly get mammograms. From 1990 to 2000, the death rate from breast cancer dropped 24 percent.

Mammograms do carry risks, including false positives, and they don’t catch all tumors. But this study should give women reassurance that regular mammograms can save lives.

Sarah White wrote this on October 27th, 2005 and filed it under Healthy Living, Women's Health |