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132 - Rethinking Breast Cancer Screening on Hormone Therapy: A Fresh Perspective, Part 2
In today's episode we're continuing our conversation about breast cancer surveillance, focusing on the risks of getting a regular mammogram. Last week, we discussed the cumulative risk of radiation damage that women are subjected to over decades of annual mammogram screenings. Mammograms also have shortcomings: they don't detect pre-cancer changes.
Many women aren't aware of the unintended harm a regular mammogram can cause. One of those issues is overdiagnosis. This doesn't refer to a false-positive diagnosis, but rather when a mammogram finds a cancer that grows slowly or not at all (which…
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