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- Title
Overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer due to mammography screening: results from the Norwegian screening program.
- Authors
Kalager, Mette; Adami, Hans-Olov; Bretthauer, Michael; Tamimi, Rulla M
- Abstract
Precise quantification of overdiagnosis of breast cancer (defined as the percentage of cases of cancer that would not have become clinically apparent in a woman's lifetime without screening) due to mammography screening has been hampered by lack of valid comparison groups that identify incidence trends attributable to screening versus those due to temporal trends in incidence.
- Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2012, Vol 156, Issue 7, p491
- ISSN
1539-3704
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.7326/0003-4819-156-7-201204030-00005