Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer
- 24 April 2003
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 348 (17), 1672-1680
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmcp021804
Abstract
A 44-year-old woman in good health, who has no family history of breast or ovarian cancer, asks about mammography. She had a normal screening mammogram 18 months ago but has recently read that mammograms may not be useful. What should her physician advise?This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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