RT Journal
A1 Onitilo AA
T1 THe debate over lifesaving benefit of screening mammography continues
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD March 12
VO 172
IS 5
SP 446
OP 447
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1867
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1867
AB 
Recent public, political, and economic pressure has put intense scrutiny on screening modalities including prostate-specific antigen, colonoscopy, and mammography testing, which previously have been accepted as good clinical practice and incorporated into various guidelines. The recent publication by Welch and Frankel1 and the associated commentary2 disputing the life-saving benefits of breast cancer screening by mammography add more fuel to this debate. Welch and Frankel1 make a statistical argument that women with screen-detected cancer are unlikely to have benefited from screening and raise concern about the harms of screening, emphasizing overdiagnosis and overtreatment.