Breast cancer survival among women under age 50: Is mammography detrimental?

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      Reviews the survival of patients aged 49 years or less whose cancers were detected by mammography alone. The uncertainty which exists about the benefit of detecting breast cancer by mammography in women under 50 years of age; Data which contradict the suggestion that women under 50 are put at a survival disadvantage by undergoing mammography; Ten-year actuarial survival for clinically and mammographically detected breast cancer.