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Breast Cancer
Findings from Washington University, Medical Department provide new insights into breast cancer
October 30th, 2008
" To examine the benefits of mammography for elderly breast cancer survivors in community settings. Using the 1991-1999 linked SEER-Medicare data, we examined if mammography reduced the risk of breast-cancer-specific and all-cause mortality among women age 66 or older who were diagnosed with first primary breast cancer (FPBC) at stages 0-III and survived at least 30 months," scientists writing in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment report. "To analyze the influence of mammography (both within one year and within two years prior to death/censoring) on the risk of breast-cancer-specific mortality, we compared women who died of breast cancer (cases)...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-30)
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