Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (4)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Miller, A. B
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Miller, A. B
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 1, pp. 64-65
IJE vol.33 no.1 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Point-Counterpoint

Commentary: A defence of the Health Insurance Plan (HIP) study and the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS)

Anthony B Miller

Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 JNCI J Natl Cancer InstHome page
J. G. Elmore, L. M. Reisch, M. B. Barton, W. E. Barlow, S. Rolnick, E. L. Harris, L. J. Herrinton, A. M. Geiger, R. K. Beverly, G. Hart, et al.
Efficacy of Breast Cancer Screening in the Community According to Risk Level
J Natl Cancer Inst, July 20, 2005; 97(14): 1035 - 1043.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Int J EpidemiolHome page
D. A Freedman, D. B Petitti, and J. M Robins
Authors' response
Int. J. Epidemiol., December 1, 2004; 33(6): 1405 - 1406.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Int J EpidemiolHome page
D. A Freedman, D. B Petitti, and J. M Robins
Rejoinder
Int. J. Epidemiol., February 1, 2004; 33(1): 69 - 73.
[Full Text] [PDF]