Editing Breast cancer (section)

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In 2009 the US science journalist [[Christie Aschwanden]] criticized that the emphasis on breast cancer screening may be harming women by subjecting them to unnecessary radiation, biopsies, and surgery. One-third of diagnosed breast cancers might recede on their own.<ref name=Ave>{{cite news |title = The Trouble with Mammograms |date = 17 August 2009 | vauthors = Aschwanden C |newspaper =[[Los Angeles Times]] |url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-17-he-breast-overdiagnosis17-story.html |url-status = live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101204073704/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/17/health/he-breast-overdiagnosis17 |archive-date = 4 December 2010 }}</ref> Screening mammography efficiently finds non-life-threatening, asymptomatic breast cancers and precancers, even while overlooking serious cancers. According to the cancer researcher [[H. Gilbert Welch]], screening mammography has taken the "brain-dead approach that says the best test is the one that finds the most cancers" rather than the one that finds dangerous cancers.<ref name=Ave />

In 2002 it was noted that as a result of breast cancer's high visibility, the statistical results can be misinterpreted, such as the claim that one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lives – a claim that depends on the unrealistic assumption that no woman will die of any other disease before the age of 95.<ref name="Olson_2002" />{{rp|199–200}} By 2010 the breast cancer survival rate in Europe was 91% at one years and 65% at five years. In the USA the five-year survival rate for localized breast cancer was 96.8%, while in cases of [[metastases]] it was only 20.6%. Because the prognosis for breast cancer was at this stage relatively favorable, compared to the prognosis for other cancers, breast cancer as cause of death among women was 13.9% of all cancer deaths. The second most common cause of death from cancer in women was lung cancer, the most common cancer worldwide for men and women. The improved survival rate made breast cancer the most prevalent cancer in the world. In 2010 an estimated 3.6&nbsp;million women worldwide have had a breast cancer diagnosis in the past five years, while only 1.4&nbsp;million male or female survivors from lung cancer were alive.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Olopade OI, Falkson CI |title = Breast Cancer in Women of African Descent |publisher = Springer Science & Business Media|year = 2010 |pages = 5 |isbn = 978-1-4020-3664-4}}</ref>