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Benefit and Risks of Screening for Breast Cancer

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Breast cancer (BC) is by far the most frequent cancer in women. In industrialized countries, it is the second most frequent cause of death (Lauby-Secretan B et al in N Engl J Med 372: 2353–2358, 2015).

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    This is the average number of screening rounds in the old trials.

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    The different weighting between RCTs has not been accepted by most other experts. It is based on formal criteria.

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    Opportunistic screening means unsystematic screening by one or several methods performed by radiologists or gynaecologists without special training for screening and outside the strict quality assurance recommended for screening.

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  1. Ntl. Reference Center Mammography Munich, Breast Diagnostic Center Munich, Cheritable GmbH for Research and Education Mammadiagnostic, Munich, Germany

    Sylvia H. Heywang-Köbrunner

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  1. Institute for Earth System Preservation, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany

    Peter A. Wilderer

  2. Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany

    Ortwin Renn

  3. Bavarian State Ministry of the Environment and Consumer Protection, Munich, Germany

    Martin Grambow

  4. Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Michael Molls

  5. Chair of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Klaus Mainzer

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Heywang-Köbrunner, S.H. (2018). Benefit and Risks of Screening for Breast Cancer . In: Wilderer, P., Renn, O., Grambow, M., Molls, M., Mainzer, K. (eds) Sustainable Risk Management. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66233-6_14

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