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This claim is not scientifically founded,\u00ab  says Elsebeth Lynge of the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s Department of Public Health Science, to Politiken.dk.<\/p>\n<h2>Screening had no significant effect<\/h2>\n<p>In Denmark, some districts began breast cancer screening in the early 1990s, but the programme wasn&#8217;t extended to the whole country. <\/p>\n<p>The authors of the new study have compared death rates from breast cancer among women who were offered screening with rates among women who weren&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>There was no significant evidence that mammography screening reduced mortality rates in these areas according to their report, published online 23 March in British Medical Journal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/340\/mar23_1\/c1241\" target=\"_blank\">See the study here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>One per cent drop in mortality<\/h2>\n<p>The study focused on a 10-year period before the screening and on the 10-year period commencing five years after screening began, when screening would have shown an effect.<\/p>\n<p>Mortality decreased by one per cent per year for 55 to 74year-old women during 1997 to 2006, compared with a 2 per cent per year decline in areas without screening. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe were unable to find an effect of the Danish screening program on breast cancer mortality. The reductions in breast cancer mortality we observed in screening regions were similar or less than those in non-screened areas and in age groups too young to benefit from screening, and are more likely explained by changes in risk factors and improved treatment than by screening mammography,\u00ab the authors write.<\/p>\n<h2>Contradicts earlier study<\/h2>\n<p>The new study contradicts previous research, which found a 25 per cent drop in breast cancer deaths after screening was introduced in Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor were among the team responsible for the earlier research. Their criticism of the new study is based on the methods used.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbFirst, the authors use very rough data, and secondly, their analysis is not suitable for answering this question,\u00ab Elsebeth Lynge says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI would call their data \u2019polluted\u2019,\u00ab she continues.<\/p>\n<h2>New data is unrefined<\/h2>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor stress that screening can only have an effect for women who have not already been diagnosed with cancer before the screening is begun. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWhen analysing the effect of screening, one must therefore eliminate the women who already have breast cancer. The technical term for this is &#8216;refined mortality&#8217;. J\u00f8rgensen and co-authors do not use &#8216;refined mortality&#8217;\u00ab, explain the University of Copenhagen researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor are part of a team who have previously published resarearch demonstrating that mortality rates from breast cancer fell by 25 per cent, ten years after the introduction of screenings in Copenhagen municipality.<\/p>\n<p>luci@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New study shows that breast cancer screening has no effect on mortality rates. 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This claim is not scientifically founded,\u00ab  says Elsebeth Lynge of the University of Copenhagen&#8217;s Department of Public Health Science, to Politiken.dk.<\/p>\n<h2>Screening had no significant effect<\/h2>\n<p>In Denmark, some districts began breast cancer screening in the early 1990s, but the programme wasn&#8217;t extended to the whole country. <\/p>\n<p>The authors of the new study have compared death rates from breast cancer among women who were offered screening with rates among women who weren&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>There was no significant evidence that mammography screening reduced mortality rates in these areas according to their report, published online 23 March in British Medical Journal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/full\/340\/mar23_1\/c1241\" target=\"_blank\">See the study here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>One per cent drop in mortality<\/h2>\n<p>The study focused on a 10-year period before the screening and on the 10-year period commencing five years after screening began, when screening would have shown an effect.<\/p>\n<p>Mortality decreased by one per cent per year for 55 to 74year-old women during 1997 to 2006, compared with a 2 per cent per year decline in areas without screening. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe were unable to find an effect of the Danish screening program on breast cancer mortality. The reductions in breast cancer mortality we observed in screening regions were similar or less than those in non-screened areas and in age groups too young to benefit from screening, and are more likely explained by changes in risk factors and improved treatment than by screening mammography,\u00ab the authors write.<\/p>\n<h2>Contradicts earlier study<\/h2>\n<p>The new study contradicts previous research, which found a 25 per cent drop in breast cancer deaths after screening was introduced in Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor were among the team responsible for the earlier research. Their criticism of the new study is based on the methods used.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbFirst, the authors use very rough data, and secondly, their analysis is not suitable for answering this question,\u00ab Elsebeth Lynge says.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI would call their data \u2019polluted\u2019,\u00ab she continues.<\/p>\n<h2>New data is unrefined<\/h2>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor stress that screening can only have an effect for women who have not already been diagnosed with cancer before the screening is begun. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWhen analysing the effect of screening, one must therefore eliminate the women who already have breast cancer. The technical term for this is &#8216;refined mortality&#8217;. J\u00f8rgensen and co-authors do not use &#8216;refined mortality&#8217;\u00ab, explain the University of Copenhagen researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Elsebeth Lynge and Sisse Njor are part of a team who have previously published resarearch demonstrating that mortality rates from breast cancer fell by 25 per cent, ten years after the introduction of screenings in Copenhagen municipality.<\/p>\n<p>luci@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":46,"name":"Science","slug":"science","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":46,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":831,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11487,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/mammogram460.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39162,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/39162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}