# OnCo record overdiagnosis (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/overdiagnosis/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "overdiagnosis" ;
  schema:name "Overdiagnosis"@en ;
  schema:description "Finding a cancer that would never have caused symptoms or death in a person's lifetime, so that the diagnosis and treatment bring harm without benefit. It is the main downside of screening."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/overdiagnosis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdiagnosis> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61611-0> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/lead-time-bias/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/overtreatment/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/number-needed-to-screen/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/prostate-screening-psa-mri/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/mammography/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/active-surveillance/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/skin-cancer-screening/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/screening/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/stage-shift/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/sensitivity-specificity/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/psa/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lead-time-bias/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/overtreatment/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/number-needed-to-screen/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-independent-uk-panel-on-breast-cancer-lancet/> .