Screening for a cancer: Thinking before rethinking

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 365-374

  Miettinen, O S ^a,b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Evidence based medicine; Overdiagnosis; Overtreatment; Screening

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; AGE; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 77955559766     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: 15737284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10654-010-9449-1     Document Type: Review

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