Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer: Estimates of overdiagnosis from two trials of mammographic screening for breast cancer

Randomised controlled trials have shown that the policy of mammographic screening confers a substantial and significant reduction in breast cancer mortality. This has often been accompanied, however, by an increase in breast cancer incidence, particularly during the early years of a screening progra...

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Autores principales: Duffy, Stephen W, Agbaje, Olorunsola, Tabar, Laszlo, Vitak, Bedrich, Bjurstam, Nils, Björneld, Lena, Myles, Jonathan P, Warwick, Jane
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1410738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16457701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr1354

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1410738/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16457701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr1354

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