Mammography screening : truth, lies and controversy / Peter C. Gøtzsche ; forewords by Iona Health and Fran Visco.

London ; New York : Radcliffe Pub, [2012], ©2012.

xi, 388 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Important issues in cancer screening -- Does screening work in Sweden? -- Stonewalling the Cochrane report on screening -- Troubling results in the Lancet -- Harms dismessed by the Cochrane Breast Cancer Group -- Lancet publishes the harms of screening -- Delayed media storm in the United States after our 2001 reviews -- Danish National Board of Health circles the wagons -- US and Swedish 2002 meta-analyses -- Scientific debates in the United States -- Publication of entire Cochrane review obstructed for 5 years -- Editorial misconduct in the European Journal of Cancer -- Tabár's beyond reason studies -- Other observational studies of breast cancer mortality -- Overdiagnosis and overtreatment -- Ad hominem attacks : a measure of desperation? -- US recommendations for women aged 40-49 years -- What have women been told? -- Extraordinary exaggerations -- Tabár threatens the BMJ with litigation -- Falsehoods and perceived censorship in Sweden -- Celebrating 20 years of breast screening in the United Kingdom -- Can screening work? -- Where is screening at today? -- Where next?

Includes bibliographical references and index.