27/05/2026
I am ANGRY!!
A US doctor said that despite the billions poured into breast cancer research, death rates haven’t changed in the last 25 years. And she blamed that partly on overdiagnosis from mammograms to push her own alternative breast imaging (she also sells parasite cleanses)
This is the truth
Breast cancer death rates haven’t changed in 25 years (she got that right)
BUT the number of women diagnosed has nearly DOUBLED in the US, from 182k women in 2000 to 322k in 2025.
https://seer.cancer.gov/statistics-network/explorer/
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/about/how-common-is-breast-cancer.html
That means 142k women’s lives have been saved!!
There are so many new treatments - herceptin, phesgo, perjeta, enhertu, the CDK inhibitors that I did my PhD in
And while mammograms do overdiagnose breast cancer - by detecting small cancers in older women that would never be a risk to life, they account for 7% of all breast cancers diagnosed. They’re not the reason
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29267146/
Now if you want a video on why breast cancer rates have risen, let me know
And when you see a post like the one this doctor shared, challenge the creator for the stats to prove it.