Point/Counterpoint. Film mammography for breast cancer screening in younger women is no longer appropriate because of the demonstrated superiority of digital mammography for this age group.

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  • Medical Physics  Journal
  • Medical Physics  Journal
  • Keywords

  • Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Breast Neoplasms, Clinical Trials as Topic, Evidence-Based Medicine, Humans, Male, Mammography, Mass Screening, Radiographic Image Enhancement, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Technology Assessment, Biomedical, X-Ray Film
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    Pubmed Id

  • 11986238
  • Author List

  • Yaffe MJ; Barnes GT; Orton CG
  • Start Page

  • 3979
  • End Page

  • 3982
  • Volume

  • 33
  • Issue

  • 11