Screening for early detection of breast cancer : Overdiagnosis versus suboptimal patient management

Radiology

Volumn 268, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 327-328

  Gur, David ^a   Sumkin, Jules H ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST EXAMINATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; WHOLE BREAST ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84880674128     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13122721     Document Type: Note

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