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Race, ethnicity–adjusted age recommendation for initiating breast cancer screening

JAMA Network Open

Peer-Reviewed Publication

JAMA Network

About The Study: This study of 415,000 breast cancer deaths in female patients in the U.S. from 2011 to 2020 provides evidence-based race-adapted starting ages for breast cancer screening. The findings suggest that health policy makers and clinicians could consider an alternative, race and ethnicity–adapted approach in which Black female patients start screening earlier. 

Authors: Mahdi Fallah, M.D., Ph.D., of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany, and Tianhui Chen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Zhejiang Cancer Hospital in Hangzhou, China, are the corresponding authors. 

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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.8893)

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