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13 Diseases Researched for Overdiagnosis

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16 Abstracts with Overdiagnosis Research

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Pubmed Data : N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 22 ;367(21):1998-2005. PMID: 23171096
Study Type : Meta Analysis
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Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis, X-ray Mammography
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Pubmed Data : Am J Surg Pathol. 1996 Nov ;20(11):1331-45. PMID: 8898837
Study Type : Human Study
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Pubmed Data : Cancer Causes Control. 2014 Sep 21. Epub 2014 Sep 21. PMID: 25240802
Study Type : Human Study
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Diseases : Thyroid Cancer
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2012 Nov 30 ;34(5-6):292-299. Epub 2012 Nov 30. PMID: 23208125
Study Type : Human Study
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Diseases : Dementia
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Eur J Cancer. 2013 May ;49(8):1905-14. Epub 2013 Mar 13. PMID: 23490647
Study Type : Human Study
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Article Publish Status : This is a free article. Click here to read the complete article.
Pubmed Data : BMJ Open. 2022 06 8 ;12(6):e061211. Epub 2022 Jun 8. PMID: 35676016
Study Type : Human Study
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Diseases : Breast Cancer
Additional Keywords : Overdiagnosis
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : J Alzheimers Dis. 2018 ;61(4):1627-1637. PMID: 29376848
Study Type : Human Study
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Diseases : Dementia
Additional Keywords : Increased Risk
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Am J Surg Pathol. 2002 Sep ;26(9):1111-28. PMID: 12218568
Study Type : Human Study
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Pubmed Data : Ann Intern Med. 2012 Dec 4 ;157(11):776-84. PMID: 23208167
Study Type : Human Study
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Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : JAMA. 2015 Mar 3 ;313(9):926-35. PMID: 25734734
Study Type : Human Study
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Diseases : Thyroid Cancer
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Lancet. 2018 Jul 26. Epub 2018 Jul 26. PMID: 30057105
Study Type : Review
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Diseases : Aortic Aneurysm
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Can J Psychiatry. 2012 Nov ;57(11):659-65. PMID: 23149281
Study Type : Review
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Diseases : Bipolar Disorder
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2013 Oct ;23(8):1376-82. PMID: 24257551
Study Type : Review
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Pubmed Data : Oncologist. 2012 ;17(12):1515-33. Epub 2012 Sep 28. PMID: 23024155
Study Type : Review
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Is DCIS Overrated?

Pubmed Data : Cancer Treat Res. 2018 ;173:53-72. PMID: 29349758
Study Type : Commentary
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Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis
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Pubmed Data : Pathologe. 2008 Nov ;29 Suppl 2:157-9. PMID: 18726596
Study Type : Review
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Pharmacological Actions : Anti-Angiogenic
Additional Keywords : Ovariectomy-Induced Changes
Anti Therapeutic Actions : Overdiagnosis

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Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
A disturbing new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine has brought mainstream attention to the fact that mammography screenings have caused millions of US women to suffer unnecessary surgeries and chemotherapy and radiation treatments over the past 30 years.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
A new study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has found that more frequent mammography results in dramatically increased rates of false positives and unnecessary biopsies.
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The global juggernaut of unremitting and unapologetic breast cancer overdiagnosis and overtreatment persists.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
A new report claims that millions of lives have been saved in the past two decades due to 'early detection' of cancer and improved treatment, but is it true?
PSA screening for prostate cancer has been a failed medical experiment leaving behind 1 million male victims treated unnecessarily for a type of prostate cancer that was clinically insignificant, providing little or no benefit in terms of lives saved.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
What if millions of medical diagnoses, procedures, and treatments were based, on at best, questionable scientific evidence, but still performed daily, the world over, in the name of saving patients lives or reducing their suffering? A new JAMA review indicates this may be exactly what is happening.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
A devastating new report commissioned by the National Cancer Institute reveals that our 40-year long 'War on Cancer' has been waged against a vastly misunderstood 'enemy,' that in many cases represented no threat to human health whatsoever.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
Should we be looking for disease in people who don't have any symptoms? A large new study indicates the answer is NO.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
Millions of women undergo them annually, but few are even remotely aware of just how many dangers they are exposing themselves to in the name of prevention, not the least of which are misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis and the promotion of breast cancer itself.
Written by Vic Shayne, Ph.D.
As master of the public relations game, the medical industry uses the term “prevention” in a way that not only misleads people, but also paves the way to illness.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
A powerful new Lancet study reveals that the so-called breast cancer susceptibility genes -- BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 -- do not, in fact, cause breast cancer. Jolie's prophylactic mastectomy, for instance, was for naught.
Written by Jefferey Jaxen
Professional education events are heavily sponsored by drug companies promoting their products as the solution. This widely used coercive and misinformation technique where drug benefits are exaggerated and side effects minimized was exposed in a recent BMJ Open study.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
Despite what millions still believe, mammography does not "save lives." To the contrary, it increases total mortality.
Written by Sayer Ji, Founder
After decades of wrongful cancer diagnoses and treatments, and millions harmed, the National Cancer Institute and high gravitas journals like JAMA finally admit they were wrong all along.
The prospect of developing cancer is a frightening one. Sadly, this fear is leading many to undergo dangerous and harmful cancer screenings that, ironically, can cause the very diseases patients hope to avoid.
The last 40 years have shown triple the incidence of thyroid cancer in women, yet the mortality rate has remained the same. Why are physicians so quick to diagnose women with thyroid cancer?

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