evidence: And that is exactly what the Swiss Medical Board did. Explaining their position, they said: "We were struck by how non obvious it was that the benefits of mammography screening outweighed the harms…It’s easy to promote mammography screening if the majority of women believe that it prevents or reduces the risk of getting breast cancer and saves many lives through early detection of aggressive tumors. Unfortunately, they are not, and we believe that women need to be told so. From an ethical perspective, a public health program that does not clearly produce more benefits than harms is hard to justify." [...] That is, "systematic mammography screening might prevent about one death attributed to breast cancer for every 1000 women screened, [but] there was no evidence to suggest that overall mortality was affected," meaning no lives are actually saved. There have been ten randomized trials of mammogram screening, and not one has ever shown an overall mortality benefit. How does that make sense? If mammograms prevent one in a thousand women from dying from breast cancer, then the only way no lives are saved is if mammograms somehow led to the deaths of one in a thousand healthy women. But that’s preposterous, right? [...] - Understanding the Mammogram Paradox - Overtreatment of Stage 0 Breast Cancer DCIS - Women Deserve to Know the Truth About Mammograms - Breast Cancer and the Five-Year Survival Rate Myth - Why Mammograms Don’t Appear to Save Lives - Why Patients Aren’t Informed About Mammograms - The Pros and Cons of Mammograms