Breast screening: the facts--or maybe not
- 27 January 2009
- Vol. 338 (jan27 2) , b86
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b86
Abstract
Peter Gøtzsche and colleagues argue that women are still not given enough, nor correct, information about the harms of screeningKeywords
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