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Title: Mammographic screening: no reliable supporting evidence?
Authors: Miettinen, Olli S, Henschke, Claudia I, Pasmantier, Mark W, Smith, James P, Libby, Daniel M, Yankelevitz, David F
Source: Lancet. 2/2/2002, Vol. 359 Issue 9304, p404. 2p. 1 Graph.
Subjects: Mammograms, Cancer-related mortality, Medical screening, Health risk assessment
Abstract: Much confusion is being generated by the conclusion of a recent review that "there is no reliable evidence that screening for breast cancer reduces mortality." In that review, however, there was no appreciation of the appropriate mortality-related measure of screening's usefulness; and correspondingly, there was no estimation of the magnitude of this measure. We take this measure to be the proportional reduction in case-fatality rate, and studied its magnitude on the basis of the only valid and otherwise suitable trial. We found reliable evidence of fatality reduction, apparently substantial in magnitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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