Through a glass darkly: the mammography debate.

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  • C Kaniklidis
چکیده

All screening programmes do harm; some do good as well, and, of these, some do more good than harm at reasonable cost. The first task of any public health service is to identify beneficial programmes by appraising the evidence. However, evidence of a favourable balance of benefit to harm in a research setting does not guarantee that a similar balance will be reproduced in practice, so screening programmes need to be introduced in a way that allows their quality to be measured and continuously improved. — Sir Muir Grey, former director of the U.K. National Screening Committee1

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Current oncology

دوره 22 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015