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It is important to understand the history of breast cancer screening to better understand the continuing effort to reduce access to screening. Since the randomized, controlled trials have shown a statistically significant mortality reduction for women ages 40–74, the appropriate threshold for initiating screening is age 40 with no data to support the use of the age of 50 as a threshold for screening...
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