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According to the American Cancer Society

> About half of the women getting annual mammograms over a 10-year period will have a false-positive finding at some point.



Thanks.

Any idea what the false negative is?

I guess that’s the more important factor?


The american screening system has very high rates of recalls to further examination (around 2-4x higher than good european screening systems).

In Germany, roughly 20-25% of cancers are missed in screening (and often found 2 years later)




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