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    Mammograms are widely promoted as a “life-saving” tool for helping women detect breast cancer in its earliest stages.

 The message has so thoroughly saturated the public mind that nearly 68 percent of women over the age of 40 have had a mammogram in the past two years — and most of these women believe doing so will help them avoid dying from breast cancer.

 Unfortunately, women have largely been sold a false bill of goods, as the science tells a very different story about the ability of mammograms to save lives.

In Most Cases, Mammograms Don’t Save Lives

 Considering that mammograms are regarded as the “gold standard” for breast cancer prevention in the conventional medical establishment, you may have assumed they save lives.

 Well, researchers from Dartmouth College had a novel idea — they decided to determine how often lives were actually saved by mammography screening vs. breast cancer industry generated statistics and their marketing propaganda.

 And what they found should make even the staunchest mammography proponent give pause.