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Breast Cancer
Research from K. Rojnik and co-researchers yields new findings on breast cancer
May 8th, 2008
In this recent article published in the journal Value in Health, scientists in Ljubljana, Slovenia conducted a study "To determine the most cost-effective screening policy for population-based mammography breast cancer screening in Slovenia using probabilistic sensitivity analysis. A time-dependent Markov model for breast cancer was constructed." "General principles of cost-effectiveness analysis with multiple strategies were used to compare the costs and effects of 36 different screening policies. Using probability distributions for model parameters, the true effect of uncertainty across model input parameters on expected costs and effects was explored. The...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-05-08)
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