Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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81 Has the transition to digital mammography in breast cancer screening resulted in real benefits?
Published 2019Most breast screening programmes worldwide have replaced Screen-Film mammography (SFM) with Full-field Digital Mammography (FFDM). While FFDM provides significant technical and practical advantages over SFM in the provision ...Presentation -
16 The burden of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
Published 2019Burden of cancer is increasing worldwide, and in Australia, partly due to overdiagnosis: cancers which would never cause symptoms or harm if left undetected. We sought to estimate the current burden of overdiagnosis of ...Presentation -
Test accuracy and potential sources of bias in diagnostic test evaluation.
Published 2020Understanding how to interpret diagnostic test accuracy studies is a key skill that health practitioners need to develop in order to undertake evidence‐based practice. In this article we guide the reader through how to ...Article -
23 Heart age: intuitive communication tool or gateway to overdiagnosis? A comparison of 3 countries
Published 2019Heart age calculators are increasingly popular around the world as a way to promote and communicate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment to patients/consumers. While they have intuitive appeal, the implicit assumptions ...Presentation -
Causal inference in melanoma epidemiology using Mendelian randomization
Published 2020Commentary re Liyanage et al. report a Mendelian randomization study that found no evidence of a causal association between vitamin D and melanoma.Article