Breast Cancer: Are Yearly Mammograms Worthwhile? Nov. 21, 2012 -- Women over age 40 are often urged to get yearly mammograms with the promise that early detection is their best hope for beating breast cancer. But a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that mammograms may not save as many lives as doctors once thought.
DR. PIETER COHEN is scanning the shelves inside a shop in Chinatown here when something familiar - and potentially dangerous - catches his eye. "What's that yellow box, behind the other one?" Dr. Cohen asks the clerk.