Dr Miriam Stoppard defends breast screening

Following the recent report in The Times (19 Jan) that breast screening does not have significant benefit to women, Dr Miriam Stoppard today defends screening in an article for The Mirror.

Commenting on the claims made in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr Stoppard says that she will continue to attend breast screening appointments. Read her full article here: http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/dear-miriam/2010/01/better-safe-than-sorry.html.

Screening saves up to 1,400 lives every year in the UK. Find out more about breast screening here.

Read our comment on the original report here.