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Breast Cancer Screening
Recent studies from University of Copenhagen add new data to breast cancer screening
June 19th, 2008
According to a study from Copenhagen, Denmark, "The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that nonparticipation in organized mammography screening is due to insufficient understanding of the information in the invitation letter by relating educational level to user pattern. Data from two Danish mammography screening programmes in Copenhagen, 1991-1999, and Funen, 1993-2001 were taken for this study." "The Danish Central Population Register was used to define target groups; screened participation data were provided by the health authority, and data on highest obtained education came from Statistics Denmark. Data on all breast imaging in 2000 outside...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-06-19)
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