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A new study showed that women who died from breast cancer were less likely to have had regular screenings for the disease.
Doubts have been raised in recent years over the effectiveness of regular breast cancer screening. But a new Australian study announced Thursday finds that women who undergo screening halve their risk of dying from the disease.
The study, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, is the largest of its kind in Australia and one of the largest in the world.
Researchers from the University of Melbourne followed about 4,000 women, mostly between the ages of 50 and 69, of the BreastScreen program in Western Australia. The research team compared screening attendance between the two groups and found screening was much lower among women who had died from breast cancer, a finding that is consistent with a similar study from South Australia and with numerous studies from around the world, noted the researchers.
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"Early detection is the key to early treatment and the free BreastScreen program is the best health service available to detect breast cancers earlier in women aged 50-69 years," said study lead Dr. Carolyn Nickson.
A separate study released in April found that women's annual breast exams could be improved by adding ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to the usual mammogram.
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