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Why women avoid getting screened for breast cancer

Why women avoid getting screened for breast cancer
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Women may avoid getting screened for breast cancer if they get a false positive on a mammogram early in life.

More than a quarter of a million women living in Chicago were studied.

Women who got false positive results were more likely to delay their next mammogram and more than 30-percent of those patients skipped the appointment.