National Guideline Clearinghouse | Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years.

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National Guideline Clearinghouse | Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years.

Guideline Title

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40–74 years.

Bibliographic Source(s)

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Tonelli M, Gorber SC, Joffres M, Dickinson J, Singh H, Lewin G, Birtwhistle R. Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years. CMAJ 2011 Nov 22;183(17):1991-2001. [47 references] PubMed

Guideline Status

This is the current release of the guideline.
This guideline updates a previous version: Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care. Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination. Canadian Guide to Clinical Preventive Health Care. Ottawa (Canada): Health Canada; 1994. Screening for breast cancer. p. 788-95. [31 references]
A complete list of planned reviews, updates and revisions is available under the What's New section at the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care Web site .

CMAJ. 2011 Nov 22;183(17):1991-2001.

Recommendations on screening for breast cancer in average-risk women aged 40-74 years.

Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, Tonelli M, Gorber SC, Joffres M, Dickinson J, Singh H, Lewin G, Birtwhistle R, Fitzpatrick-Lewis D, Hodgson N, Ciliska D, Gauld M, Liu YY.

Source

Alberta Kidney Disease Network, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta.

Erratum in

• CMAJ. 2011 Dec 13;183(18):2147.

Comment in

• Breast cancer guidelines. [CMAJ. 2012]
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• Time to stop mammography screening? [CMAJ. 2011]
  Time to stop mammography screening?Gøtzsche PC. CMAJ. 2011 Nov 22; 183(17):1957-8.

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22106103

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PMC3225421

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