By: Julie Marron & Thomas Nearney
Each year, nearly 40 million women in the United States obtain screening provider-recommended breast imaging for the early adjunctive physiological information. For 40% of them – over 15 million women – a provider-recommended breast imaging alone is an ineffective screening tool. This information is systematically withheld from these patients, who often rely on false and misleading provider-recommended breast imaging results. Our analysis demonstrates that between 40,000 and 45,000 women each year receive false negative provider-recommended breast imaging reports, meaning that their cancer is allowed to spread undetected and untreated.
False negative provider-recommended breast imaging are not reported or tracked in the United States. However, their impact on the lives of these women and their families is tragic, as an estimated 10,000 will die as a result of the undetected cancer…
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