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Overdiagnosis in organised mammography screening in Denmark. A comparative study

BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis in cancer screening is the detection of cancer lesions that would otherwise not have been detected. It is arguably the most important harm. We quantified overdiagnosis in the Danish mammography screening programme, which is uniquely suited for this purpose, as only 20% of t...

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Autores principales: Jørgensen, Karsten J, Zahl, Per-Henrik, Gøtzsche, Peter C
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20028513
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6874-9-36

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