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(Medical Intelligence Unit.) Edited by Ismail Jatoi. 193 pp. Austin, Tex., R.G. Landes, 1997. (Distributed by Chapman & Hall, New York.) $89.95. ISBN 0-412-14161-2.

The public health and medical communities, for the most part, advocate screening healthy women for the early detection of breast cancer. Beginning in 1963, the Health Insurance Plan of New York conducted the first formal demonstration of screening efficacy by physical examination and mammography. The data suggested that women who undergo routine mammography have a 30 percent reduction in the risk of death from breast cancer as compared with women who do not have mammography. The subsequent widespread use of mammography in this country led to a dramatic increase in the incidence rates of breast cancer in the 1980s. Quite . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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