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Breast cancer screening, outside the population-screening program, of women from breast cancer families without proven BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations: a simulation study.
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology - 1 Mar 2006
Jacobi Catharina E, Nagelkerke Nico J D, van Houwelingen J Hans C, de Bock Geertruida H
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PURPOSE: We assessed the cost-effectiveness of mammography screening for women under the age of 50, from breast cancer families without proven BRCA1/BRCA2 mutations, because current criteria for screening healthy women from breast cancer families are not evidence-based. METHODS: We did simulation studies with mathematical models on the cost-effectiveness of mammography screening of women under the age of 50 with...
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