The benefits and harms of breast cancer screening: an independent review.

Whether breast cancer screening does more harm than good has been debated extensively. The main questions are how large the benefit of screening is in terms of reduced breast cancer mortality and how substantial the harm is in terms of overdiagnosis, which is defined as cancers detected at screening...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Independent UK Panel on Breast Cancer Screening
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012