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Factors influencing elderly women's mammography screening decisions: implications for counseling

BACKGROUND: Although guidelines recommend that clinicians consider life expectancy before screening older women for breast cancer, many older women with limited life expectancies are screened. We aimed to identify factors important to mammography screening decisions among women aged 80 and older com...

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Autores principales: Schonberg, Mara A, McCarthy, Ellen P, York, Meghan, Davis, Roger B, Marcantonio, Edward R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2216009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18021402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-7-26