‘Overdiagnosis’: some breast cancer treatments may have been unnecessary, study suggests

Exclusive: Patients tell of screening and surgery they believe they didn't need, and the effect this has had on their lives

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When Jenny* had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she believed the major surgery to remove her breast, although traumatic, had saved her life.

She described feeling rage" when at a follow-up appointment three years later, she said to her surgeon, I would probably be dead by now" if she had not received the surgery, to which he replied: Probably not."

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