Open AccessCherry‐picking of evidence fails to accurately show extent of overdiagnosis: Mammographic screening harms understated
Author(s) -
Woolley Emma
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of medical radiation sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.484
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 2051-3909
pISSN - 2051-3895
DOI - 10.1002/jmrs.13
Subject(s) - overdiagnosis , mammography , breast cancer screening , disappointment , medicine , breast cancer , family medicine , psychology , cancer , social psychology , pathology
The article by Lee and Peters (2013) clearly demonstrated bias which is inherent when staff of a program reviews the efficacy of their own program. It takes great bravery and humility to accept that a program which has received as much financial and political investment as BreastScreen Australia might be doing more harm than good. Had Lee and Peters reviewed all of the current evidence on overdiagnosis, the picture painted by the review would have been quite different.