overdiagnosis
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February 11, 2020
Estimating the Magnitude of Cancer Overdiagnosis in Australia Bookmark
George Lundberg, MDResearch paper from the Medical Journal of Australia curated by Editor in Chief George Lundberg, MD, who notes:
For five types of cancer, the rate of overdiagnosis in Australia is roughly one in five. Many of these diagnoses are “indolentomas” or “incidentalomas.”
Go to full paper published in the Medical Journal of Australia.
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January 6, 2020
Cancer Data Provide Insights into Occurrence, Overdiagnosis, and Treatment Advances Bookmark
George Lundberg, MDArticle from ScienceDaily curated by Editor in Chief George Lundberg, MD, who notes:
Rates of diagnosis are steeply rising, but mortality rates are stable. Could these newly identified “cancers” be something else?Go to full article published by ScienceDaily.
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