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Breast screening overdiagnosis
Protocols are evidence based
BMJ 2009; 339 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b3262 (Published 11 August 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b3262
- Hilary M Dobson, chairman and clinical director, West of Scotland Breast Screening Service1,
- Jeremy St J Thomas, lead breast pathologist2
- 1Quality Assurance Reference Centre, Scottish Breast Screening Programme
- 2NHS Lothian
- hilary.dobson{at}ggc.scot.nhs.uk
The editorial accompanying the paper by Jørgensen and Gøtzsche indicates the challenges to identify the numbers of non-lethal breast cancers detected by screening, a question which remains unanswered by the paper.1 2
More extensive scrutiny of the authors’ adjustments for the known rising incidence …
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