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the politics of breast cancer

battling cancer may be easier than battling political and economic interests

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. And Canadian researchers are involved in a big one. It’s the Canadian National Breast Screening Study and it has been tracking 90,000 women over 25 years. The purpose of the study is determining whether mammography reduces the mortality of women from breast cancer. In other words, does mammography save lives? The answer is no. <Read the full article>

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