Overdiagnosis and breast cancer screening
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Estimation of Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screening
I. Summary The benefit of breast cancer (BC) screening with mammography has been demonstrated by randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, there is a growing concern about the harms of screening, in particular the problem of overdiagnosis. It occurs when screening detects a breast cancer that would not have presented clinically in the woman's lifetime in the absence of screening. Overdiagno...
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سرطان پستان یکی از شایع ترین بیماریهای بدخیم و اولین علت مرگ و میر زنان بوده و تقریبا یک سوم تمام سرطانهای زنان را تشکیل می دهد.
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BACKGROUND In 2004 we wrote in Tidsskriftet that mammography screening resulted in massive over-diagnosis and over-treatment of breast cancer. Our study was criticised because we had only five years of follow-up time and did not take account of the fact that increased use of hormone replacement therapy could lead to more breast cancer. We have now been screening women for 14 years, and during a...
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The aim of cancer screening is to detect asymptomatic cancers whose treatment will result in extension of life, relative to length of life absent screening. Unfortunately, cancer screening also results in overdiagnosis, the detection of cancers that, in the absence of screening, would not present symptomatically during one's lifetime. Thus, their detection and subsequent treatment is unnecessar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Breast Cancer Research
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1465-542X
DOI: 10.1186/bcr1321