(NaturalNews) The American Cancer Society has admitted that the benefits of breast cancer screening have been overstated, even while refusing to rescind its endorsement of yearly mammograms for women over the age of 40.

In recent years, scientists have become extremely critical of U.S. health recommendations that women receive breast cancer screening every year. Screening can expose women to dangerous radiation, and current tests have high rates of false positive results — either detecting benign lumps and subjecting women to unnecessary biopsies and mental anguish, or detecting slow-growing cancers that would never have posed a health threat and subjecting women to dangerous and potentially life-altering cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation and breast removal.

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