What is overdiagnosis and why should we take it seriously in cancer screening?
Overdiagnosis occurs in a population when conditions are diagnosed correctly but the diagnosis produces an unfavourable balance between benefits and harms. In cancer screening, overdiagnosed cancers are those that did not need to be found because they would not have produced symptoms or led to prema...
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Sprache: | Inglês |
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CSIRO Publishing
2017-07-01
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| Schriftenreihe: | Public Health Research & Practice |
| Online-Zugang: | http://www.phrp.com.au/issues/july-2017-volume-27-issue-3/what-is-overdiagnosis-and-why-should-we-take-it-seriously-in-cancer-screening/ |
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