In late November, the media reported on a new study by researchers at Monash University which found that Australai's publicly funded BreastScreen program may have led to over-diagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer.
Click here to read the offical statement published and endorsed by Cancer Council Australia, Cancer Institute NSW, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and the Screening Subcommittee of the Department of Health and Ageing in September 2011..