In recent years, cancer specialists have warned that aggressive early screening for people at low risk for breast cancer may do more harm than good because it can lead to unnecessary treatment. Yet expensive awareness campaigns — featuring those ubiquitous pink ribbons — continue to encourage early screening and mammograms. Forum discusses breast cancer awareness and research, and the role of the high profile “pink ribbon” campaign.
- More: Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer – New York Times Magazine
- More: Mammograms: Which Women? How Often? – State of Health
- More: Effect of Three Decades of Screening Mammography on Breast-Cancer Incidence – The New England Journal of Medicine