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

Putting it all Together: Balancing Benefits and Harms of Mammography

Benefits:

• Percentage of mortality reduction.
• Cancer deaths averted per 1000 women.
• Life years gained
  • "life-year": a measure of the quantity of life lived.
  • may be expressed as "life years expected per 1000 people" for an intervention strategy.

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