Cancer overdiagnosis: A challenge in the era of screening

“Screening” is a search for preclinical, asymptomatic disease, including cancer. Widespread cancer screening has led to large increases in early-stage cancers and pre-cancers. Ubiquitous public messages emphasize the potential benefits to screening for these lesions based on the underlying assumptio...

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Main Authors: Barbara K. Dunn, Steven Woloshin, Heng Xie, Barnett S. Kramer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-12-01
Series:Journal of the National Cancer Center
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266700542200059X