Point: Mammography, breast cancer, and overdiagnosis: The truth versus the whole truth versus nothing but the truth

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 642-647

  Berlin, Leonard ^a,b,c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Skokie Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAMMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSTATE CANCER; ULTRASOUND; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84904052074     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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