Now only available on the Wayback Machine thanks to medical overlords of greed, please read "Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography" first published in 2008 by the Cochrane Collaboration. Share with your doctor and loved ones the benefits and harms that accompany mammography screening. In it you will find:
What are the benefits and harms of attending a screening programme?
How many will benefit from being screened, and how many will be harmed?
What is the scientific evidence for this?
This 13 page well-referenced information leaflet has been translated into 17 languages and was called "the first honest mammography information for women written by health professionals" by the US Center for Medical Consumers. It's published by an internationally respected source of medical information, the Cochrane Collaboration, 27,000+ volunteer professional research analysts all over the world, working to distill the truth and bias out of the published data.
The leaflet's data is based on this meta-analysis by Cochrane of 7 randomized controlled trials of 600,000 women.