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Breast cancer survival rates – and how stats can mislead

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A recent article in HealthNewsReview [3] (a site that examines the accuracy of health news reports) shines a light on misleading stats that are being used to promote mammography.

CWHN has covered this issue recently. Learn more about the controversies about breast screening here:

Mammography screening: Weighing the pros and cons for women’s health [4]

Breast self-examination: What it means and why the thinking about it has changed [5]

Read more about breast health and breast cancer on our website:

Women, Plastics and Breast Cancer [6]

Breast Cancer Prevention [7]

Not a flower shop: Exploring breast cancer risk and gender bias [8]

Book Review - Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History by Florence Williams [9]

Being proactive about your breast health [10]

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[1] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/taxonomy/term/5664
[2] http://www.cwhn.ca/print/45835
[3] http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2013/02/five-year-survival-rates-can-mislead-message-to-medical-educators-medical-journals-journalists-and-the-public/
[4] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/networkmagazine/mammographyscreeening
[5] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/network_magazine/breast_self-examination
[6] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/media/womenplasticsandbreastcancer
[7] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/resources/breastcancerprevention
[8] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/networkmagazine/notaflowershop
[9] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/networkmagazine/bookreview_breasts
[10] http://www.cwhn.ca/en/tothepoint/beingproactiveaboutyourbreasthealth