Breast Cancer not needing Treatment

"42% of Breast Cancers do not need to be treated." 

42% of breast cancers detected since the BreastScreen program was introduced in Australia would not have been life-threatening if left untreated, research suggests.

Writing in the journal Cancer Causes Control 2009 (online), the authors said the "overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer attributable to mammography screening appears to be substantial".

The response of the cancer specialists states that the improved diagnostic screens have improved the Breast cancer survival rates by 35%.

Please tell me if I missing something here.  

                        35 - 42 = minus 7.  

Does this mean that despite the fact that 42% of women did not need to be treated, it only improved survival rates by 35%?  What happened to the 7% of women who did not need to be treated and are not included in the so-called overall improvement rate?

So are the cancer specialists really saying that their treatments are really not effective?  

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