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Preventive health care, 2001 update: screening mammography among women aged 40-49 years at average risk of breast cancer.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A previous review by the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination (now the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care) in 1994 indicated fair evidence to exclude mammographic breast cancer screening of women aged 40-49 from the periodic health examination. This current review considers the available new and updated evidence regarding the effect of screening mammography on breast cancer mortality among women in this …

Authors

Ringash J

Journal

Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 164, No. 4, pp. 469–476

Publication Date

February 20, 2001

ISSN

0820-3946