Breast cancer screening: well established but remains contentious

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• Format Audio, Texts
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Self-directed learning
• EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?, 3 - Appraising evidence
• Duration <5 mins
• Difficulty Introductory

Key Concepts addressed

• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 1-2g Common practice is not always evidence-based
• 1-2j Earlier is not necessarily better

Details

The most reliable evidence comes from systematically reviewing trials in which women have been randomly allocated to breast screening or no screening.