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. 2010 Jan;103(1):14-20.
doi: 10.1258/jrsm.2009.090342.

Who evaluates public health programmes? A review of the NHS Breast Screening Programme

Karsten Juhl Jørgensen  1 , Peter C Gøtzsche
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Who evaluates public health programmes? A review of the NHS Breast Screening Programme

Karsten Juhl Jørgensen et al. J R Soc Med. 2010 Jan.
No abstract available

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The cover page from the NHS Breast Screening Programme Annual Review 20081
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Breast cancer mortality in the UK. The vertical dotted line indicates the start of the NHS Breast Screening Programme (from www.cancerresearchuk.co.uk )
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Figure 3
Breast cancer incidence per 100,000 women in the UK. Horizontal dotted lines are linear regressions projecting the pre-screening trends using 1975–1987. This is to allow comparisons of observed and expected incidence rates in the age groups that could be affected by screening mammography (from www.cancerresearchuk.co.uk )
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