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Estimating breast cancer mortality reduction and overdiagnosis due to screening for different strategies in the United Kingdom

BACKGROUND: The benefits and harms of population-wide mammography screening have been long debated. This study evaluated the impact of screening frequency and age range on breast cancer mortality reduction and overdiagnosis. METHODS: We developed a Markov simulation model for the evaluation of mammo...

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Autores principales: Gunsoy, N B, Garcia-Closas, M, Moss, S M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4021535/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24762956
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bjc.2014.206