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Most Breast Cancer Deaths Occur in Women Who Don't Get Routine Mammograms
Most Breast Cancer Deaths Occur in Women Who Don't Get Routine Mammograms
S Boschert
20090915
2009 Oct 15
Elsevier Global Medical News
Most Breast Cancer Deaths Occur in Women Who Don't Get Routine Mammograms
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2009 Oct 15, S Boschert
SAN FRANCISCO (EGMN) - Only 21% of Massachusetts women older than age 40 years were not in mammographic screening programs. Yet unscreened women accounted for 75% of breast cancer deaths in an analysis of data on 6,997 invasive breast cancers diagnosed in 1990-1999 and followed through 2007."The most effective method for women to avoid death from breast cancer is to have regular mammographic screening," Dr. Blake Cady said at a breast cancer symposium sponsored by the American Society of Clinical...