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Practice Guideline
. 2011 Nov 22;183(17):1991-2001.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.110334.

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years

Marcello Tonelli, Sarah Connor Gorber, Michel Joffres, James Dickinson, Harminder Singh, Gabriela Lewin, Richard Birtwhistle, Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis, Nicole Hodgson, Donna Ciliska, Mary Gauld, Yan Yun Liu; Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
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Practice Guideline

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years

Marcello Tonelli et al. CMAJ. .

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  • CMAJ. 2011 Dec 13;183(18):2147
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Figure 1:
Figure 1:
Incidence of breast cancer and associated mortality among Canadian women in 2007. Sources: Canadian Cancer Registry and Canadian Vital Statistics — Death Databases, Statistics Canada.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:
Analytical framework and key questions posed by the workgroup. MRI = magnetic resonance imaging.
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Comment in

  • Time to stop mammography screening?
    Gøtzsche PC. Gøtzsche PC. CMAJ. 2011 Nov 22;183(17):1957-8. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.111721. CMAJ. 2011. PMID: 22106102 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Breast cancer guidelines.
    Grant-Whyte I. Grant-Whyte I. CMAJ. 2012 Feb 21;184(3):325. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.112-2017. CMAJ. 2012. PMID: 22354341 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Breast cancer guidelines.
    Wong WT. Wong WT. CMAJ. 2012 May 15;184(8):921; author reply 922. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.112-2040. CMAJ. 2012. PMID: 22586576 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
  • Breast cancer guidelines.
    Doyle G. Doyle G. CMAJ. 2012 May 15;184(8):921-2; author reply 922. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.112-2041. CMAJ. 2012. PMID: 22586577 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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