Peter Gotzsche

Mammography Screening

Truth, Lies and Controversy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book takes an evidence-based, critical look at the scientific disputes and the information provided to women by governments and cancer charities. It also explains why mammography screening is unlikely to be effective today. All health professionals and members of the public will find these revelations disturbingly illuminating.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 172mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 846g
• ISBN-13: 9781846195853
• ISBN-10: 1846195853
• Artikelnr.: 36912322

Autorenporträt

Peter C Gotzsche Professor of Clinical Research Design and Analysis, Director, The Nordic Cochrane Centre and Chief Physician, Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Important issues in cancer screening 3. Does screening
work in Sweden? 4. Stonewalling the Cochrane report on screening 5.
Troubling results in the Lancet 6. Harms dismissed by the Cochrane Breast
Cancer Group 7. The Lancet publishes the harms of screening 8. Delayed
media storm in the United States after our 2001 reviews 9. The Danish
National Board of Health circles the wagons 10. US and Swedish 2002
meta-analyses 11. Scientific debates in the United States 12. Publication
of entire Cochrane review obstructed for 5 years 13. Editorial misconduct
in the European Journal of Cancer 14. Tabár's 'beyond reason' studies 15.
Other observational studies of breast cancer mortality 16. Overdiagnosis
and overtreatment 17. Ad hominem attacks: a measure of desperation? 18. US
recommendations for women aged 40-49 years 19. What have women been told?
20. Extraordinary exaggerations 21. Tabár threatens the BMJ with litigation
22. Falsehoods and perceived censorship in Sweden 23. Celebrating 20 years
of breast screening in the United Kingdom 24. Can screening work? 25. Where
is screening at today? 26. Where next?