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Effect of screening mammography. A The screened group always has an increased number of cancers due to both lead time and overdiagnosis. B This illustration assumes no true reduction in cancer deaths but nevertheless the standard survival curves (deaths/cancer) show a large benefit for screening. Only large population-based studies (deaths/population) can determine whether there is really a benefit for screening
