WHO endorses screening for breast cancer.
After reviewing the original studies used by Danish investigators who sparked off the controversy, experts at WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said that although there is only a slight benefit in women under 50, mammography screening helps to cut deaths from breast cancer
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