November 26, 2008

Some cancers die off without treatment

Recent research into the regular checking for breast cancer has thrown up some intriguing questions, rather than providing answers to the question that regular mammograms help fight against breast cancer.

These results published in the Archive of Internal Medicine showed the results of two separate tests.

These tests involved one group of 119,000 women aged between fifty and sixty four who had a mammogram test every two years over a six year period and a group of 110,000 women of the same age group who over the same period who only had one mammogram test over the same time period.

Obviously, the group who had regular tests found more cases of invasive breast cancer, this is because this is what they are looking for, and clearly, the average amount of positive cases should be the same throughout the two groups. However, in the group of women who undertook the regular testing their rate of cancers found were twenty two per cent higher than the other group.

Source [Health]