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How should we screen for breast cancer?
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2011.00475.x
Subject(s) - outrage , breast cancer , medicine , cancer , breast cancer screening , family medicine , political science , law , mammography , politics
Breast cancer is a killer. Screening for it is commonly seen as a life‐saver, and moves to reduce screening programmes are understandably greeted with outrage. But, as Howard Wainer explains, evidence is a great help in deciding such issues.