{"id":5524,"date":"2023-08-23T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2023-08-23T10:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T10:43:03","slug":"alert-mammograms-leading-to-widespread-overdiagnosis-unnecessary-treatment-in-older-women-nci-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=5524","title":{"rendered":"ALERT: Mammograms Leading to Widespread Overdiagnosis &#8212; Unnecessary Treatment &#8212; In Older Women, NCI Study Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-5525\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163.png 600w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-293x193.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-163-390x257.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>An alarming new study reveals that mammograms in older women are doing more harm than good. Not only did mammgraphy not increase survival, but the older the woman, the more likely she will suffer overdiagnosis and unnecessary surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Among women aged 85 and older, an\u00a0<u>estimated 54% of breast cancer was potentially overdiagnosed<\/u>\u00a0as a result of breast &#8216;preventive&#8217; breast screenings.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/alert-mammograms-leading-widespread-overdiagnosis-unnecessary-treatment-older-wom\">https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/alert-mammograms-leading-widespread-overdiagnosis-unnecessary-treatment-older-wom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alarming new study reveals that mammograms in older women are doing more harm than good. Not only did mammgraphy not increase survival, but the older the woman, the more likely she will suffer overdiagnosis and unnecessary surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Among women aged 85 and older, an\u00a0estimated 54% of breast cancer was potentially overdiagnosed\u00a0as a result of breast &#8216;preventive&#8217; breast screenings.\u00a0 Read more: https:\/\/greenmedinfo.com\/blog\/alert-mammograms-leading-widespread-overdiagnosis-unnecessary-treatment-older-wom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}