Possible net harms of breast cancer screening: updated modelling of Forrest report.

J. Raftery; M. Chorozoglou

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Possible net harms of breast cancer screening: updated modelling of Forrest report.

December 21, 2011

Raftery J, Chorozoglou M. BMJ. 2011;343(dec08 2):d7627.

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This report contends that breast cancer screening programs may actually harm women in the first 10 years that they undergo screening, due to overdiagnosis and excess harm from radiation exposure.

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