Study: 1 in 3 Breast Cancer Patients Given Unnecessary Treatment - Cancer - FOXNews.com

Study: 1 in 3 Breast Cancer Patients Given Unnecessary Treatment - Cancer - FOXNews.com: "Overall, the study found that one-third of the women identified as having breast cancer didn't actually need to be treated.

Some cancers never cause symptoms or death, and can grow too slowly to ever affect patients. As it is impossible to distinguish between those and deadly cancers, any identified cancer is treated. But the treatments can have harmful side effects and be psychologically scarring."