Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening

• DOI: 10.21037/tcr.2018.09.03
• Publication Date: 2018-10-31T05:07:37Z
• Authors: Elsebeth Lynge; George Napolitano; Ilse Vejborg; Anna-Belle Beau
• Keywords: Overdiagnosis

The purpose of breast cancer screening is to reduce mortality. In order achieve this purpose, an X-ray search—a mammography examination—is made the tissue healthy women detect potential cancers that have not given rise symptoms. With early detection, a woman with can be offered more efficient treatment than it would otherwise had been possible. If works, screen-detected will better prognosis diagnosed symptoms cancer.