Screening Mammography Under Age 50
- 28 April 1999
- journal article
- contempo 1999
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 281 (16) , 1470-1472
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.281.16.1470
Abstract
Mammography is a screening procedure that has decreased the risk of death from breast cancer by 25% to 30%, as shown in 7 randomized studies (Table 1). It canKeywords
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