ArticleEpidemiology and health2015
Overdiagnosis: epidemiologic concepts and estimation.
Article in Epidemiology and health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Use of International Classification of Diseases Codes to Identify Patients with Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies.Clinical and translational gastroenterology · 2018Pooled it
- Individualized survival prediction in medullary thyroid carcinoma using a least absolute shrinkage and selection operator-Cox-based nomogram.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- Impact of annual trend volume of low-dose computed tomography for lung cancer screening on overdiagnosis, overmanagement, and gender disparities.Cancer imaging : the official publication of the International Cancer Imaging Society · 2024Article
- Overdiagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: Prevented by guidelines?Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) · 2022Review
- Lessons from Fukushima: Latest Findings of Thyroid Cancer After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2018Article
- Proteomic Biomarkers for Bisphenol A-Early Exposure and Women's Thyroid Cancer.Cancer research and treatment · 2018Article
- Overdiagnosis across medical disciplines: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Strategies for Appropriate Patient-centered Care to Decrease the Nationwide Cost of Cancers in Korea.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2017Article
- The impact of family history on non-medullary thyroid cancer.European journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology · 2016Review
- Epidemiological evidences on overdiagnosis of prostate and kidney cancers in Korean.Epidemiology and health · 2015Article
- Development and application of patient decision aids.Epidemiology and health · 2015Article
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Abstract
Overdiagnosis of thyroid cancer was propounded regarding the rapidly increasing incidence in South Korea. Overdiagnosis is defined as 'the detection of cancers that would never have been found were it not for the screening test', and may be an extreme form of lead bias due to indolent cancers, as is inevitable when conducting a cancer screening programme. Because it is solely an epidemiological concept, it can be estimated indirectly by phenomena such as a lack of compensatory drop in post-screening periods, or discrepancies between incidence and mortality. The erstwhile trials for quantifying the overdiagnosis in screening mammography were reviewed in order to secure the data needed to establish its prevalence in South Korea.
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