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Article: Self-examination `useless', breast cancer study finds
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2002
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HOPE THAT regular self-examination of the breasts might protect
women against dying from breast cancer was finally extinguished
yesterday by a huge study that demonstrated it was useless.
Results from the 11-year survey of 266,000 women in Shanghai
showed that the death rate from breast cancer was the same in the
group taught to check their breasts as in the group given no
information.
But the findings, published in the US Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, caused no surprise among British experts where
scepticism about the value of breast self-examination has been
expressed for well over a decade.
The Department of Health abandoned the policy of advising women to
examine their ...