Why Mammography Screening is being Abolished in Switzerland

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Swiss Medical Board, an independent health technology assessment initiative, was asked to prepare a review of mammography screening. The team of experts on the board included a medical ethicist, a clinical epidemiologist, a pharmacologist, an oncologic surgeon, a nurse scientist, a lawyer, and a health economist.<br>After a year of reviewing the available evidence and its implications, they noted they became “increasingly concerned” about what they were finding. The “evidence” simply did not back up the global consensus of other experts in the field suggesting that mammograms were safe and capable of saving lives.</span></h4> <h4 style="text-align: left;"> <img height="332" src="http://econewsmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-06-05-at-3.22.39-PM-800x416.png" width="640"></h4></div>

Why Mammography Screening is being Abolished in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Board, an independent health technology assessment initiative, was asked to prepare a review of mammography screening. The t...

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