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Association Between Receipt of Cancer Screening and All-Cause Mortality in Older Adults

IMPORTANCE: Guidelines recommend against routine breast and prostate cancer screenings in older adults with less than 10 years’ life expectancy. One study using a claims-based prognostic index showed that receipt of cancer screening itself was associated with lower mortality, suggesting that the ind...

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Autores principales: Schoenborn, Nancy L., Sheehan, Orla C., Roth, David L., Cidav, Tansu, Huang, Jin, Chung, Shang-En, Zhang, Talan, Lee, Sei, Xue, Qian-Li, Boyd, Cynthia M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Medical Association 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8170538/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34061202
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.12062