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Breast Cancer Screening
Illustration of breast cancer risk can help women make better decisions about mammography
February 9th, 2006
A probability illustration of breast cancer risk can help women make better decisions concerning mammography. "In order to facilitate informed decision making, women require information on the probabilities of different outcomes with mammography screening. A paper by Tom Marshall at the University of Birmingham "derives these probabilities for a U.S. population and illustrates them visually in a readily understandable format." The author explained, "Probabilities of the breast cancer mortality, all cause mortality and further investigation are derived from published data on mortality from breast cancer and published estimates of effectiveness using a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-09)
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