Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: the importance of length of observation period and lead time

AH Olsen; AM Yen; D Puliti; Dharmishta Parmar; H Chen; H Weedon-Fekjaer; KJ Jørgensen; L Tabar; M Kalager; Office of Population Censuses and Surveys; Office of Population Censuses and Surveys; PC Gøtzsche; RL Bennett; S Duffy; S Duffy; S Morrell; S Moss; SD Walter; Stephen W Duffy; SW Duffy; Y Shen

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Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening: the importance of length of observation period and lead time

Authors: AH Olsen
AM Yen
D Puliti
Dharmishta Parmar
H Chen
H Weedon-Fekjaer
KJ Jørgensen
L Tabar
M Kalager
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
PC Gøtzsche
RL Bennett
S Duffy
S Duffy
S Morrell
S Moss
SD Walter
Stephen W Duffy
SW Duffy
Y Shen
Publication date: 1 January 2013
Publisher: 'Springer Science and Business Media LLC'
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PMCID: PMC3706885This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited