The cost of breast cancer screening in the United States: A picture is worth... a billion dollars?

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 203-204

  Elmore, Joann G ^a   Gross, Cary P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER MODEL; CANCER SCREENING; DISEASE SIMULATION; ECHOMAMMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SIMULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING;

EID: 84893863151     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/m13-2943     Document Type: Editorial

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