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What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?
BACKGROUND: We analyzed the claim "mammography saves lives" by calculating the life-saving absolute benefit of screening mammography in reducing breast cancer mortality in women ages 40 to 65. METHODS: To calculate the absolute benefit, we first estimated the screen-free absolute death ris...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2670293/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19341448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-9-18 |