Population-based mammography screening below age 50: Balancing radiation-induced vs prevented breast cancer deaths

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1214-1220

  De Gelder, R ^a   Draisma, G ^a   Heijnsdijk, E A M ^a   De Koning, H J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

breast cancer; mammography; radiation; screening

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 79953228095     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.67     Document Type: Article

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