Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: Time to tackle an underappreciated harm

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 536-537

  Elmore, Joann G ^a   Fletcher, Suzanne W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SCREENING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 84859361181     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-7-201204030-00012     Document Type: Editorial

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