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Do not jump too quickly to conclusions

Overview of attention for article published in Breast Cancer Research, July 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Title
Do not jump too quickly to conclusions
Published in
Breast Cancer Research, July 2012
DOI 10.1186/bcr3213
Pubmed ID
Authors

Daniel B Kopans

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A great deal of misinformation has been promulgated about mammography screening. For example, there is no biological or scientific support for the use of the age of 50 years as a threshold for screening. Mammography screening can reduce deaths from breast cancer even if the rate of advanced cancers is not decreased. The suggestion that screening results in massive amounts of overdiagnosis is based upon faulty methodology. The results reported in the recent study by Nederend and colleagues may be due to the screening interval and thresholds used for intervention. What is clear, however, is that they do not show that screening is ineffective.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Japan 1 8%
United Kingdom 1 8%
Unknown 10 83%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 3 25%
Other 2 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 17%
Student > Postgraduate 2 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 50%
Physics and Astronomy 2 17%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 December 2017.
All research outputs
#2,655,815
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Breast Cancer Research
#267
of 2,053 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,885
of 178,589 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Breast Cancer Research
#2
of 38 outputs
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