Abstract
Screening diers from the treatment of cancer in fundamental ways. While screening for some types of cancer clearly causes more good than harm, at a reasonable cost, screening can also harm healthy individuals, people that would not have been aected by the disease in the absence of screening. A balanced, evidence-based view is required, which is complex, as screening data are subject to a range of inherent biases which may make interpretation of benets and harms dicult.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Surgical Oncology : Theory and Multidisciplinary Practice |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Place of Publication | UK |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Edition | 2 |
| Pages | 33-42 |
| Chapter | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781498715980 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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