Balancing harms and benefits of service mammography screening programs: a cohort study
Open Access
- 9 January 2012
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Breast Cancer Research
- Vol. 14 (1), R9
- https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr3090
Abstract
The use of screening mammography is still under debate within the medical community. The aim of this study is to define a balance sheet of benefits (breast cancer mortality reduction) and harms (overdiagnosis) for mammography screening programs.Keywords
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