Understanding the Methods Used by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in Developing Recommendations

Evidence of Harms: Other Evidence Related to Mammography

• Data about harms often obtained from a variety of sources.
• For breast cancer screening, data from 600,830 women aged 40+ years undergoing routine mammography screening at Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) sites obtained.
• BCSC data intended to represent the experience of a cohort of regularly screened women.

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf09/breastcancer/brcanup.htm

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