Erschienen in:
01.09.2014 | Editorial
Oversimplifying Overdiagnosis
verfasst von:
Ruth Etzioni, PhD, Roman Gulati, MS
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2014
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Excerpt
Estimating the frequency of overdiagnosis due to cancer screening is not a simple task, because overdiagnosis is almost never observable. Since we treat most cancers and their precursors, we rarely get to follow a tumor over its natural course and learn whether that tumor would have persisted as an indolent lesion, spontaneously regressed, or progressed to the point of producing symptoms. …