Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: the importance of length of observation period and lead time

BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening is a controversial topic. One difficulty in estimation of overdiagnosis is the separation of overdiagnosis from lead time that is the advance in the time of diagnosis of cancers, which confers an artificial increase in incidence when a screening p...

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Autores principales: Duffy, Stephen W, Parmar, Dharmishta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23680223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr3427

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3706885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23680223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr3427

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