"Six months after hearing they did not have breast cancer, women with these false positives experienced changes in 'existential values' and 'inner calmness' as great as for women who had cancer."

"They reported having more anxiety, feeling more pessimistic and having more problems with their sleep and sex lives — as well as other negative outcomes — than women who had normal mammograms."

You see where this is leading?

Screening less frequently could be one way to reduce the numbers of women who have to cope with false positives without greatly increasing their risk of developing advanced breast cancer, a separate team of researchers reported Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine....