Open AccessAn exploration for quantification of overdiagnosis and its effect for breast cancer screening
Author(s) -
Yang Liu,
Shengfeng Wang,
Yubei Huang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chinese journal of cancer research/chinese journal of cancer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1993-0631
pISSN - 1000-9604
DOI - 10.21147/j.issn.1000-9604.2020.01.04
Subject(s) - overdiagnosis , medicine , breast cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , cancer , cohort , breast cancer screening , oncology , epidemiology , mammography , gynecology , paleontology , biology
To redefine overdiagnosis and reestimate the proportion of overdiagnosis of breast cancer caused by screening based on the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER, 1973-2015) Program data.