Controversies in the mammography screening programme in Switzerland

Pierre Vassilakos; Rosa Catarino; Michel Boulvain; Patrick Petignat

doi:10.4414/smw.2014.13969

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Vol. 144 No. 1718 (2014)

Controversies in the mammography screening programme in Switzerland

Pierre Vassilakos
Rosa Catarino
Michel Boulvain
Patrick Petignat

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2014.13969
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13969
Published: 20.04.2014

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Board SM. Dépistage systématique par mammographie – 15 décembre 2013. 2013.
Duffy SW, Hsiu-Hsi Chen T, Smith RA, Xing-Fang Yen A, Tabar L, et al. Real and artificial controversies in breast cancer screening. Breast Cancer Manag. 2013;2(6):519–28.
Lutz J, Pury P, Fioretta G, Raymond L. The impact of coding process on observed cancer mortality trends in Switzerland. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2004;13(1):77–81.
Massat NJ, Sasieni PD, Parmar D, Duffy SW. An ongoing case-control study to evaluate the NHS breast screening programme. BMC cancer. 2013;13(1):596.

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Vassilakos P, Catarino R, Boulvain M, Petignat P. Controversies in the mammography screening programme in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2014 Apr. 20 [cited 2024 Nov. 4];144(1718):w13969. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1861

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[1] Board SM. Dépistage systématique par mammographie – 15 décembre 2013. 2013.

[2] Duffy SW, Hsiu-Hsi Chen T, Smith RA, Xing-Fang Yen A, Tabar L, et al. Real and artificial controversies in breast cancer screening. Breast Cancer Manag. 2013;2(6):519–28.

[3] Lutz J, Pury P, Fioretta G, Raymond L. The impact of coding process on observed cancer mortality trends in Switzerland. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2004;13(1):77–81.

[4] Massat NJ, Sasieni PD, Parmar D, Duffy SW. An ongoing case-control study to evaluate the NHS breast screening programme. BMC cancer. 2013;13(1):596.