Evidence of overdiagnosis

Evidence of overdiagnosis

Sandblom and colleagues' paper compared the case fatality rate of prostate cancer between men randomly assigned to screening and those who were not invited for screening. 1 A more reliable outcome of such a randomised controlled trial is the difference of mortality as a result of prostate cance...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ 2011-06, Vol.342 (7811), p.1326-1326
Hauptverfasser: Junod, Bernard, Kaplan, Robert M, Foucras, Philippe, Dupagne, Dominique, Nicot, Philippe
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Fatalities
Humans
Male
Medical prognosis
Medical screening
Prostate cancer
PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING
Prostatic Neoplasms - diagnosis
Survival analysis
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Zusammenfassung:Sandblom and colleagues' paper compared the case fatality rate of prostate cancer between men randomly assigned to screening and those who were not invited for screening. 1 A more reliable outcome of such a randomised controlled trial is the difference of mortality as a result of prostate cancer between intervention...
ISSN:0959-8138
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.d3700