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ArticleCMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne2011

Time to stop mammography screening?

Peter C Gøtzsche

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Article in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment; how to deal with too much medicine.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2020
    Review
  2. Article
  3. CJS debate: Is mammography useful in average-risk screening for breast cancer?Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie · 2016
    Article
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  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Overdiagnosing overdiagnosis.The oncologist · 2014
    Article
  9. Article
  10. Do not jump too quickly to conclusions.Breast cancer research : BCR · 2012
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Peter C GøtzscheNordic Cochrane Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark. pcg@cochrane.dk

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MammographyMass ScreeningBreast NeoplasmsFemaleHumans

Identifiers

PMID22106102
PMCPMC3225414

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