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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11376
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health

Commission still monitoring breast cancer screening

Brussels, 27/08/2015 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is undertaking action to combat breast cancer and is concerned with the quality of screening, explained the Commissioner for Health, Vytenis Andriukaitis. The Commission's response on 21 August follows a written question from Dominique Bilde MEP (ENF, France).

In her question submitted on 2 July, Bilde mentioned the risk of “over-diagnosis” when undergoing mammography breast cancer screening promoted by some experts,...