Women who receive a false positive breast cancer diagnosis may still feel signs of stress and depression years later. Scientists say improving mammogram accuracy could help.
Women who have been through a mammography screening that initially shows signs of something being wrong, but at follow-up examinations are declared healthy, can be slow to feel reassured.
For each woman who dies of breast cancer, there are 200 women who receive a false positive.
, associate research professor, University of Copenhagen
