Objectives Benefit and cost effectiveness of breast cancer screening are still matters of
controversy. Risk-adapted strategies are proposed to improve its benefit-harm and cost …

Background Nowadays, various simulation approaches for evaluation and decision making
in cancer screening can be found in the literature. This paper presents an overview of …

Background Economic evaluations have become an accepted methodology for decision
makers to allocate resources in healthcare systems. Particularly in screening, where short …

Background The economic evaluation of stratified breast cancer screening gains
momentum, but produces also very diverse results. Systematic reviews so far focused on …

The recent series of important exchanges within the longlived mammography debate in the
pages of this journal were triggered by the publication in 2014 of the 25-year follow-up of the …

We would like to sincerely thank the authors for their extensive overview on simulation
models for breast cancer screening [1, 2]. The multitude of papers cited clearly shows the …

We would like to thank the authors for their response to our review of simulation models in
breast cancer screening [1, 2] because they open a much needed discussion in this field of …

Regrettably, some aspects of the breast cancer screening debate display their own uniquely
obfuscating argumentation, more smoke and mirrors than scientific clarity. I begin here by …