Mammography screening
Subtitle: truth, lies and controversy
By: Peter C. Gøtzsche ; forewords by Iona Health and Fran Visco
Publisher: Radcliffe Pub; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781846195853
Subjects: Breast; Radiography; Cancer; Diagnosis; Medical screening; Breast Neoplasms; Mammography; Mortality; Prevention & control; Early Detection of Cancer; Mass Screening
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Important issues in cancer screening; title: Does screening work in Sweden?; title: Stonewalling the Cochrane report on screening; title: Troubling results in the Lancet; title: Harms dismessed by the Cochrane Breast Cancer Group; title: Lancet publishes the harms of screening; title: Delayed media storm in the United States after our 2001 reviews; title: Danish National Board of Health circles the wagons; title: US and Swedish 2002 meta-analyses; title: Scientific debates in the United States; title: Publication of entire Cochrane review obstructed for 5 years; title: Editorial misconduct in the European Journal of Cancer; title: Tabár's beyond reason studies; title: Other observational studies of breast cancer mortality; title: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment; title: Ad hominem attacks : a measure of desperation?; title: US recommendations for women aged 40-49 years; title: What have women been told?; title: Extraordinary exaggerations; title: Tabár threatens the BMJ with litigation; title: Falsehoods and perceived censorship in Sweden; title: Celebrating 20 years of breast screening in the United Kingdom; title: Can screening work?; title: Where is screening at today?; title: Where next?