Commentary: Screening mammography: a decision analysis
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Commentary: screening mammography: a decision analysis.
over the credibility of the randomized screening mammography trials are red herrings. The overall results of the trials suggest that screening very likely reduces breast cancer mortality. Despite some peccadillos of the trials, I agree with the overall conclusion. I always have. So why have I been painted as being anti-screening? It is because I am less enthusiastic about the consequences of sc...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh034