Case study: I was 'railroaded' into breast operation It takes a very strong woman at that stage to say I am not going to do anything. She said she was told to make up her mind. "My feet didn't touch the ground," she said. I was told that I was not going to get any more of that consultants time and I had to make my mind up. I was railroaded. If I had known then what I know now I would not have gone to screening, I would not have had my first operation, I would not have had my second operation. The vast majority of screen detected cancers get treated and no difference is made to their outlook. The probability of being someone whose life is saved by screening is very, very small indeed.