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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8668725/Breast-cancer-screening-has-little-detectable-impact.html

       This article about breast cancer screening 'has little detectable impact'.The is a reason why I choose because I want find evidence that screnning  has led to faster falls in deaths rates from the disease.  has led to faster falls in deaths rates from the disease.
For the study, published in the British Medical Journal, falls in breast cancer death rates were compared in three pairs of similar territories: Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland; Sweden to Norway; and The Netherlands to Flanders in Belgium.
In the first of each pair screening was introduced 10 to 15 years earlier than in the second.
However, they found little difference between the pairs in breast cancer mortality rate falls from 1989 to 2006.
The percentage drops were as follows: Northern Ireland 29, Republic of Ireland 26; Sweden 16, Norway 24; Netherlands 25, Flanders 25
      The synopsis for this article is a improvements in treatment and healthcare systems "may be more plausible explanations" for death rate falls, they found.
Dr Karsten Juhl Jørgensen, of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark, said the paper drew similar conclusions to one he had co-authored with colleague Prof Peter Gøtzsche, published in the BMJ last year.
It found breast cancer death rates fell slower from 1997 to 2006 in areas of Denmark where screening had been introduced in 1991.
He said it was "becoming increasingly clear" that those who deserved the credit for falling death rates "are those who treat breast cancer, not those who screen healthy women".
Last year the same Nordic Cochrane Centre team claimed that 7,000 women a year in Britain were undergoing unnecessary treatment - including mastectomies - after wrongly being told they had life-threatening breast cancer.The problem is that mammograms detect both tumours and precancerous legions in milk ducts called ductal carcinoma.He believes health ministers 'seriously have to consider' dropping breast cancer screening.
       In my opinion aboust the article is agree,because "The best evidence available shows that women aged 50 to 69 who are regularly screened are less likely to die from breast cancer.
"The World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimates that there is a 35 per cent reduction in mortality from breast cancer among screened women aged 50 to 69.If this problem is take easy,it will be worse an increasingly number of patients.
       From this article,I can conclude that the we would encourage women to consider attending routine screening.