An important concern in cancer screening is overdiagnosis, the detection of cancer that would not have become clinically evident over the patient’s lifespan in the absence of screening. Ripping etal. (1) provide a useful overview of strengths and many key limitations of various approaches to quantifying overdiagnosis. We complement their disquisition with additional considerations.

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社论：量化过度诊断的挑战

癌症筛查中的一个重要问题是过度诊断，即在没有进行筛查的情况下，在患者的整个生命周期中都不会在临床上变得明显的癌症检测。翻录等。（1）对各种量化过度诊断的方法的优势和许多关键局限性进行了有益的概述。我们通过其他考虑来补充他们的要求。