Team wins $9.5m to research overtesting and ‘incidentalomas’

Professor Paul Glasziou from Bond University heads up a team of Australian researchers – including professors Rachelle Buchbinder from Monash, and Chris Maher and Kirsten McCaffery from the University of Sydney – who have just received a $9,578,895 grant to investigate unnecessary testing and treatment of so-called 'incidentalomas', particularly in the areas of musculoskeletal diseases, cardiovascular disease and cancer.