Overdiagnosis in Cancer

Volume: 102, Issue: 9, Pages: 605 - 613
Published: May 5, 2010
Abstract
This article summarizes the phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis—the diagnosis of a “cancer” that would otherwise not go on to cause symptoms or death. We describe the two prerequisites for cancer overdiagnosis to occur: the existence of a silent disease reservoir and activities leading to its detection (particularly cancer screening). We estimated the magnitude of overdiagnosis from randomized trials: about 25% of mammographically detected breast...
Paper Details
Title
Overdiagnosis in Cancer
Published Date
May 5, 2010
Volume
102
Issue
9
Pages
605 - 613
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