| Literature DB >> 3135467 |
Abstract
In an unselected population of women in their early fifties, about 7500 mammograms would have to be performed annually at a cost of U.S. $375,000 per survivor in order to find one woman who would: 1) have an incidental cancer in stage I which was not detectable by physical examination; and 2) owe her survival to the early detection of that cancer. Annual screening mammography has a poor cost-benefit ratio.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID： 3135467 DOI： 10.1016/0306-9877(88)90108-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Hypotheses ISSN： 0306-9877 Impact factor: 1.538