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Mammographic screening induces a 25 percent reduction in breath cancer mortality according to a meta-analysis.
But there is still a controversy about the value of the ratio Benefit/harm of breath cancer screening among public health searchers. A norwegian public health searcher states that it is possible that 36% of invasive breath cancer of organised mammography screening programs could be in fact overdiagnosed.
Further research should be to implement on that matter with regard of the human and economic cost of over-diagnosis.
Indeed there is only two possibilities when a cancer is screened by organised program: either it is advanced diagnosis or it is over-diagnosis. In the first case the cancer would have been clinically diagnosed later after the lead time interval. In the second case the cancer would have never been clinically diagnosed during the remaining life time of the women.
Merci de me communiquer votre adresse mél. A la suite du post que j’ai posté sur mon blog http://docteurdu16.blogspot.com/2011/09/david-elia-nest-pas-un-sein.html
et des différents commentaires que vous avez faits, il me semble intéressant d’organiser un débat raisonné sur ces différents points avec CMT. Si vous êtes d’accord, nous pourrions ensuite publier…
C’est fait, je viens de vous l’adresser ainsi qu’une question méthodologique que nous pourrions discuter à propos des essais randomisés évaluant le dépistage.
Bien confraternellement.
bonjour,
je pense que vous vouliez écrire “breast cancer”, non?
cordialement.
Tout à fait. Merci de me l’avoir signalé, c’est corrigé.
Encore merci.