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Study: Self exam increases women's concerns, has no effect on mortality.
2004 APR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Breast self-examination (BSE) should not be seen as a cheaper alternative to mammography, and people who still advocate it as an effective way of reducing breast cancer mortality are doing women a disservice, according to a presentation on March 16, 2004, at the 4th European Breast Cancer Conference.
Vladimir Semiglazov conducted and analyzed a randomized, controlled trial of BSE in nearly 100,000 Russian women between 1985 and 2003. The women had been taught how to examine their breasts correctly, but even so there was no reduction in deaths from breast cancer in the BSE group.
And not only did self-examination not affect mortality, it also meant that more women in the BSE group consulted doctors for benign breast lesions than those in the control group.
Lars Holmberg, a professor at the Regional Oncologic Center, Uppsala, Sweden, commented on the study and explained why BSE should not be promoted as something that can decrease mortality from breast cancer.
"Breast self-examination has been widely advocated in the belief that it is beneficial," said Holmberg. "In fact we now know that it can be positively harmful. ...
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