Absolute numbers of lives saved and overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening, from a randomized trial and from the Breast Screening Programme in England

Journal of Medical Screening

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-30

  Duffy, Stephen W ^a   Tabar, Laszlo ^b,c   Olsen, Anne Helene ^a   Vitak, Bedrich ^d   Allgood, Prue C ^a   Chen, Tony H H ^e   Yen, Amy M F ^e   Smith, Robert A ^f  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Radiology   (Sweden)

^c FALUN HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 77950673205     PISSN: 09691413     EISSN: 14755793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jms.2009.009094     Document Type: Article

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