Improving the Sensitivity of Screening Mammography in the South of the Netherlands (original) (raw)
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of cancer that will never cause symtoms or death during a woman's lifetime. Without screening these cancers would not have been detected and treated. In a systematic review of countries with organised screening programmes, Jørgensen et al. found an overdiagnosis rate of 52%. 38 Several other studies also report high overdiagnosis rates, ranging between 15 and 42%. 39,40 On the other hand, a study from the UK estimated that at least two lives are saved for every overdiagnosed case and that the benefits thus outweight the harms. 41 Also the European Screening Network working group Table 2. Determinants of the sensitivity of screening mammography.
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