Screening for early detection of disease: to what purpose?

Periodic Breast Cancer Screening in Reducing Mortality From Breast Cancer

Sam Shapiro · JAMA · 1971 · 475 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Preventive Medicine +17

RISE AND FALL OF ASTHMA MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES IN RELATION TO USE OF PRESSURISED AEROSOLS

W.H.W. Inman, A M Adelstein · The Lancet · 1969 · 377 citations

Public Health, Health Sciences, Air Pollution +7

Some Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Screening Programs

Manning Feinleib, Marvin Zelen · Archives of Environmental Health An International Journal · 1969 · 121 citations

Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Public Health Practice +13

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George B. Hutchison, Sam Shapiro · JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 1968 · 120 citations

Medicine, Oncology, Preventive Medicine +17

Symptoms as an Index of Biological Behaviour and Prognosis in Human Cancer

Alvan R. Feinstein · Nature · 1966 · 110 citations

Medicine, Cancer Biology, Oncology +14