Agreement on best estimates of breast cancer overdiagnosis urgently needed to inform women
Wednesday, March 4, 2015 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
More than any other debate about overdiagnosis, the discussion of breast cancer has spilt from the pages of the specialist medical press into the public domain, argues a public health expert, stating that changing screening policy "should be based on demonstrated ability to achieve equivalent benefit to harm ratios and not on the assumption that increased detection will achieve a net benefit."