The benefits and harms of mammographic screening for breast cancer

Source: Journal of Medical Screening 2012, 19 ( Suppl1), pages 1-82

Follow this link for fulltext of all articles in the supplement

Date of publication: October 2012

Publication type: Journal articles

In a nutshell: 10 article supplement offering  a systematic assessment of established  breast screening programmes. Topics include screening programmes across Europe; different methods of estimating the effect of screening on mortality rates; and the benefit or harms of screening.  Taken together these articles are claimed to be the most comprehensive assessment ever compiled of service screening and to illustrate the importance of using actual service data allied with robust statistical analysis, rather than relying chiefly on the results of RCTs.

Length of publication: 82 page pdf (10 articles)

Some important notes: This supplement is open access, no username or password requred.

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