Absolute numbers of lives saved and overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening, from a randomized trial and from the Breast Screening Programme in England.

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Published in J Med Screen on January 01, 2010

Authors

Stephen W Duffy1, Laszlo Tabar, Anne Helene Olsen, Bedrich Vitak, Prue C Allgood, Tony H H Chen, Amy M F Yen, Robert A Smith

Author Affiliations

1: CR-UK Centre for Epidemiology, Statistics and Mathematics, Wolfson Institute for Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ, UK.

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