Abolishing mammography screening programs? A view from the swiss medical board

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 1965-1967

  Biller Andorno, Nikola ^a,c   Jun̈i, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SCREENING TEST; SHORT SURVEY; SWITZERLAND; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; SWITZERLAND; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84901020770     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1401875     Document Type: Article

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