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A new research study found that women giving themselves monthly self breast exams doesn’t make much of a difference at all when it comes to reducing breast cancer deaths.

The review was done by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research. Even more shocking is that the study found that doing self exams montly may be doing more harm than good. The research was conducted on approximately 400,000 Chinese and Russian women.

“Data from two large trials do not suggest a beneficial effect of screening by (BSE) but do suggest harm in terms of increased numbers of benign lesions identified and an increased number of biopsies performed,” concluded the authors in Tuesday’s issue of The Cochrane Library. “At present, screening by breast self-examination … cannot be recommended.”

Now that this news has been revealed women are going to wonder what they should really be doing. We have been hearing for years that we should check our breasts monthly.

ff wrote this on July 19th, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living, Women's Health |