Tipping the balance of benefits and harms to favor screening mammography starting at age 40 years.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Breast Cancer Risk Model Requirements for Counseling, Prevention, and Screening.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2018
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2. Twenty-five years of breast cancer risk models and their applications.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2015
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3. How do I screen patients for breast cancer?Current treatment options in oncology · 2013
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4. Risk prediction for breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer in white women aged 50 y or older: derivation and validation from population-based cohort studies.PLoS medicine · 2013
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Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Screening for breast cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement.2009

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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