Why cancer screening has never been shown to "save lives"-and what we can do about it

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 352, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Prasad, Vinay ^a   Lenzer, Jeanne ^b   Newman, David H ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Icahn School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COLON CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAMMOGRAPHY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC OPINION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OCCULT BLOOD; SAMPLE SIZE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; NEOPLASMS; OCCULT BLOOD; PUBLIC OPINION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84959321823     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h6080     Document Type: Article

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