International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 64-65
IJE vol.33 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.
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Commentary: A defence of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) study and the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS)
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada
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The commentary of Freedman et al.1 on the reviews by Gotszche and Olsen2,3 focuses largely on three of the screening trials, and they conclude, like the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) working group that reviewed all the trials,4 that mammography screening does save lives.
I agree with their comments on the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) trial. I drew very similar conclusions when the first review of Gotszche and Olsen was published.5
Having been a participant in the IARC working group that reached similar conclusions to
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