Use of risk factors to allocate schedules for breast cancer screening.
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Use of risk factors to allocate schedules for breast cancer screening.
In an effort to reduce the cost of breast cancer screening several studies have explored the possibility of using risk factors to select a high-risk group of women and then restrict screening to that group. The results of these studies have been almost entirely negative and so it is not possible at present to classify any woman as at such low risk that she need not be screened. Nevertheless it ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.42.2.193