14 years of follow-up from the Edinburgh randomised trial of breast-cancer screening.

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Published in Lancet on June 05, 1999

Authors

F E Alexander1, T J Anderson, H K Brown, A P Forrest, W Hepburn, A E Kirkpatrick, B B Muir, R J Prescott, A Smith

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1: Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK. freda.alexander@ed.ac.uk

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