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Complementary approaches to assessing risk factors for interval breast cancer.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Jan 2011
Lowery Jan T, Byers Tim, Hokanson John E, Kittelson John, Lewin John, Risendal Betsy, Singh Meenakshi, Mouchawar Judy
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To examine risk factors for interval breast cancer among women screened in a population-based mammography program. METHODS: Risk for interval cancer was assessed in terms of both the incidence per 10,000 negative screens and the proportion of all breast cancers diagnosed among screened women. Interval (N = 557) and screen-detected cancers (N = 1,545) were identified among 208,667 women receiving...
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