Ten-Year Risk of False Positive Screening Mammograms and Clinical Breast Examinations
- 16 April 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 338 (16), 1089-1096
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199804163381601
Abstract
The cumulative risk of a false positive result of a breast-cancer screening test is unknown.Keywords
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