The times they (May) Be A-changin': Too much screening is a health problem

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 248-249

  Harris, Russell ^a   Sheridan, Stacey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; NOTE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CYTOLOGY;

FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMANS; OBSTETRICS; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VACCINATION; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 84880284479     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2013.05.002     Document Type: Note

References (9)

1. H.G. Welch Overdiagnosed: making people sick in the pursuit of health 2011 Beacon Press Boston
2. S. Brownlee Overtreated: why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer 2007 Bloomsbury New York
3. U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Recommendations. www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org.
4. S.H. Woolf, and R. Harris The harms of screening: new attention to an old concern JAMA 307 6 2012 565 566
5. R.B. Perkins, B.L. Anderson, S.S. Gorin, and J. Schulkin Challenges in Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Survey of U.S. Obstetrician-Gynecologists Am J Prev Med 45 2 2013 175 181
6. J. Peto, O. Gilham, and F.E. Matthews The cervical cancer epidemic that screening has prevented in the UK Lancet 364 2004 249 256
7. Z. Berkowitz, M. Saraiya, and G.F. Sawaya Cervical cancer screening intervals, 2006 to 2009: moving beyond annual testing JAMA Intern Med 2013 1 3 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.368
8. B.E. Sirovich, S. Woloshin, and L.M. Schwartz Screening for cervical cancer: will women accept less? Am J Med 118 2005 151 158
9. L.M. Schwartz, S. Woloshin, F.J. Fowler, and H.G. Welch Enthusiasm for cancer screening in the U.S. JAMA 291 2004 71 78