After decades of public service announcements, self-exam "buddy" reminders, and "racing for the cure" to raise breast cancer awareness, suddenly we find that all the effort and money dedicated to breast cancer screening for women under 50 actually saved "only" one life for every 1, 904 women screened while generating too many false positives, hundreds of unnecessary biopsies and excessive anxiety for healthy women.
WSJ: Are Doctors Screening Too Much for Disease?