Decades of evidence reveal a complicated relationship between mammograms and mortality. Mammograms may detect deadly … cause symptoms. I provide a brief history of the evidence on mammograms and mortality, focusing on evidence from clinical … trials, and I discuss how this evidence informs mammography guidelines. I then explore the evolution of all-cause mortality …

1.3 times higher than their population share. Furthermore, by combining the spatial distribution of mortality with the …-graded neighborhoods display a sharper increase in mortality, driven by blacks, while no pre-treatment differences are detected. Thus, we …