Overdiagnosis of breast cancer in population screening: does it make breast screening worthless?
The risk of breast cancer (BC) overdiagnosis attributed to mammography screening is an unresolved issue, complicated by heterogeneity in the methodology of quantifying its magnitude, and both political and scientific elements surrounding interpretation of the evidence on this phenomenon. Evidence fr...
Main Author: | Nehmat Houssami |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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China Anti-Cancer Association
2017-03-01
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Series: | Cancer Biology & Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.cancerbiomed.org/index.php/cocr/article/view/1003 |
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