Why is prostate cancer screening so common when the evidence is so uncertain? a system without negative feedback
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 113 (8) , 663-667
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9343(02)01235-4
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