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(This may not be true because of the likely possibility of overdiagnosis [ 10 ] and lead times that may exceed 6 years, but it may serve as a useful approximation if the amount of overdiagnosis is small).
Results from the HIP screening trial of mammography and clinical self-examination [ 12 ] suggest that if there were overdiagnosis with mammography, it would be relatively small.
Importantly the estimated TPR for mammography is not likely to be affected by overdiagnosis, which means that some screening-detected cancers would never have caused medical problems during the patient's life [ 11 ] . This would make the biomarker appear more promising than actually the case.
The use of a mortality endpoint also avoids lead-time bias, length-bias, and overdiagnosis bias that would arise with an endpoint based on characteristics of the cancer.
The cover story deplores the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities: LD advocates say that as many as 50 million Americans are learning-disabled; critics say that students claim impairment to extract special treatment from schools (extra tutoring, extra time on tests, etc.).