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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"over-diagnosis"”.
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Breast cancer screening in an urban, Swedish population Aspects of non-attendance, interval cancers and over-diagnosis
… screening: non-attendance, interval cancers and over-diagnosis. In study I rates of non-attendance ranged from 23-43% between 17 residential areas. There was a high correlation between rate of non-attendance and a socio-economic score in the areas, r=-0.78. Women living in less affluent areas …
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Understanding low-penetrance genetic risk for breast cancer
… breast cancer mortality, is associated with over-diagnosis and over-treatment. NICE has produced guidelines on the management of patients at increased risk of breast cancer due to a strong family history and/or mutations in rare, high-penetrance breast cancer genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2. In …
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Classification of ADHD Using Heterogeneity Classes and Attention Network Task Timing
Throughout the 1990s ADHD diagnosis and medication rates have increased rapidly, and this trend continues today. These sharp increases have been met with both public and clinical criticism, detractors stating over-diagnosis is a problem and healthy children are being unnecessarily medicated and …
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Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in The Gambia: Prevalent Species, Carriage and Disease
… of NTM to colonisation and the risk for over diagnosis of smear positive TB, given the prevalence in presumptive TB cases in The Gambia. I have highlighted the knowledge gap resulting from incomplete identification of NTM species in the sub-continent and the risk of misdiagnosis of …
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Malaria situation in Namibia: A study of vector species and effectiveness of the past and current control strategies in selected parts of Namibia
… the diagnostic and treatment procedures and the overall malaria control scenario in Namibia. Two sites were selected for this study based on the demographic, epidemiological and climatic conditions that are believed to represent the various malaria endemic areas in northern Namibia. Malaria …
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Clonal Dynamics in Barrett's Oesophagus and Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma
… needs to be balanced with the consequences of over-diagnosis and over-treatment since most BO will not progress. BO is a mosaic epithelium, and the precise definition of BO varies in clinical guidance. In other countries, only intestinal-type metaplasia (IM) BO undergoes monitoring, but in the …