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Danish professor Peter Gotzsche claims breast cancer screening 'harmful', but Australian surgeon disagrees
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Australian breast surgeon refutes claims
But Dr Bruce Mann, the head of surgery for The Breast Service, disagrees with Professor Gotzsche's claims.
"What he's referring to is the rare side effects of radiotherapy that can occur," Dr Mann said.
"Particularly with old radiotherapy techniques the rate of heart disease was higher. That's being addressed by newer techniques."
Dr Mann said the true estimate of over-diagnosis was 10-15 per cent, not 50 per cent.
"The idea of over-diagnosis suggests that there are cancers that if left alone, will disappear. In clinical practice I've never seen it, my colleagues have never seen it," he said.
"I don't want to have a larger proportion of women coming to see me with large, more advanced cancers. It would be a tragedy."
Clinicians are confident the problems that stem from over-diagnosis will be reduced when scientists can differentiate between so-called harmless cancers and those that do have the potential to kill.
"There's a genomic revolution going on in medicine which will tell us exactly what sorts of cancers are likely to progress quickly and which aren't," Jim Bishop from Cancer Australia said.
"But we don't have that [data] at the moment so every breast cancer is being discovered must be regarded as a threat to that woman."
The United Kingdom recently reviewed the research and, after concluding that some women were dying as a result of unnecessary treatment, now gives women more details about the risks of mammograms.
Australian breast specialists caution women to continue using the breast screening program.
Australia's national breast screening program began in 1991. In the most recent reported screening cycle, a total of 1.8 million women, or 56 per cent of the targeted population, had come in for their regular mammogram.
It recommends women be screened every two years. |
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