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Cancer Screening
Model predicts live-saving benefits of different mammography schedules
March 17th, 2005
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have devised a mathematical tool that predicts how the frequency of mammograms affects the number of lives saved by detecting breast cancers at an earlier stage. With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers - sometimes dramatically - the model provides quantitative predictions of the mortality benefits, on average, in populations of women over the course of 40 years. "We're not advocating any particular interval for mammography screening," says Sandra Lee, ScD, a biostatistician at Dana-Farber who developed the model along with Marvin Zelen, PhD, of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-17)
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