Overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are growing problems in glaucoma, and ophthalmologists must work toward finding solutions, according to a lecturer at the American Glaucoma Society meeting.

Momentous strides have been made in the understanding of disease biology for many cancer types.

Breast cancer screening after age 70 years was linked to a higher incidence of cancer that would probably not have caused symptoms in the patient’s lifetime, indicating that overdiagnosis may be common in this population, researchers said.

High incidence of lung cancer paired with stable lung cancer-related mortality rates when low-dose CT screening was introduced suggests overdiagnosis, specifically in women, according to study results published in CHEST.

Compared with systematic biopsy, MRI-directed targeted biopsy reduces the risk of overdiagnosis of prostate cancer for men with elevated prostate-specific antigen levels, according to researchers.

Trends in melanoma diagnosis and mortality suggest that white individuals in the United States were over-diagnosed with the disease, according to a study.

An estimated 1 in 7 screen-detected breast cancers in biennially screened women aged 50 to 74 years will be overdiagnosed, according to an analysis of an authoritative U.S. population data set published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Data from a study found that one in seven women in the U.S. will be overdiagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes.

One in seven U.S. women will be overdiagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetimes, according to study results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

The international Milk Allergy in Primary Care guidelines may promote overdiagnosis by labeling normal infant symptoms as possible cow’s milk allergy, according to a study published in Clinical & Experimental Allergy.