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. 2012 Nov 29;14(6):R152. doi: 10.1186/bcr3365

Table 5.

Comparison of the number of cancers detected for 1,000,000 women in annual screening between ages 40 to 49 years versus no screening versus.

Ages 40 to 49 Ages 50 to 54 Ages 40 to 54
Group 1 Annual screening Group 2 No screening Group 1 No screening Group 2 No screening Group 1 Total Group 2 Total

Base-case

Screen-detected
Invasive 7772 - - - 7772 -
Progressive in situ 1145 - - - 1145 -
Non-progressive in situ 874 - - - 874 -

Clinically detected
Invasive 5693 14 089 7680 8151 13 373 22 240
Non-progressive in situ 546 1336 658 728 1204 2064

All cancers 16 030 15 425 8338 8879 24 368 24 304

Overdiagnosis

Absolute number 605 -541 64

% of screen-detected 6.2 0.7

% of cancers diagnosed within ages 40 to 49 3.8 0.4

Estimates from the overdiagnosis model.