Overdiagnosis
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Overdiagnosis can mean either
- the diagnosis of a disease at an asymptomatic stage when it would not have had a chance to become symptomatic because the patient died inbetween.
- the false positive result of the application of diagnostic criteria that would not have given symptoms during the lifetime of a patient. Screening programs increase both kinds of overdiagnosis.
Reference Per-Henrik Zahl; Jan Maehlen. Constant relative survival rates in Sweden and Norway when adjusting for screening-related overdiagnosis. Int J Cancer. 2007 Jan 17
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