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Annual screening may not decrease breast cancer deaths among women aged 40 to 49 years: Abstracted from: Miller A, To T, Baines C, Wall C. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study-1: breast cancer mortality after 11 to 16 years of follow-up. Annals of Internal Medicine 2002; 137: 306–12.

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 Sources of funding: Canadian Cancer Society; Department of National Health and Welfare; National Cancer Institute of Canada;, Alberta Heritage Fund for Cancer Research; Manitoba Health Services Commission; Medical Research Council of Canada, le Ministere de la Sante et des Service Sociaux du Québec, Nova Scotia Department of Health; Ontario Ministry of Health.

☆☆ For correspondence: A.B. Miller, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, im Neuenheimer Feld, Germany. E-mail: a.miller@dkfz-heidelberg.de.

 Abstract provided by Bazian Ltd, London.

PII: S0305-7372(02)00128-7

doi: 10.1016/S0305-7372(02)00128-7

Cancer Treatment Reviews
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 55-57 , February 2003