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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer described by researchers at University of Otago
August 14th, 2008
According to recent research published in the European Journal of Cancer Prevention, "The aim of the study was to estimate the effect of breast screening on routinely collected age-specific breast cancer mortality rates. The relative protection obtained from randomized controlled trials of screening was assigned to a time before diagnosis for women who died of breast cancer to estimate the expected number of deaths that would have been preventable if screening had occurred." "Simulation was used to obtain confidence intervals for these estimates. The reduction in age-specific breast cancer mortality rates that can be expected from service screening was also...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-14)
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