Do the benefits of screening mammography outweigh the harms of overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 196, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Barratt, Alexandra L ^a   Glasziou, Paul P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84865423712     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10236     Document Type: Letter

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