Is mammography screening beneficial: An individual-based stochastic model for breast cancer incidence and mortality.

The benefits of mammography screening have been controversial, with conflicting findings from various studies. We hypothesize that unmeasured heterogeneity in tumor aggressiveness underlies these conflicting results. Based on published data from the Canadian National Breast Screening Study (CNBSS),...

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Main Authors: Thuy T T Le, Frederick R Adler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-07-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008036