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Letter: Editor's reply to "Screened from harm"

Published 3 December 2014

• No one proposes that we stop screening entirely. Unfortunately we lack reliable methods of discriminating aggressive tumours from others – and, if such methods existed, women diagnosed with non-aggressive tumours would need to have quite remarkable confidence in them.

Issue no. 2998 published 6 December 2014

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