Annual mammographic screening to reduce breast cancer mortality in women from age 40 years: long-term follow-up of the UK Age RCT

Duffy, Stephen; Vulkan, Daniel; Cuckle, Howard; Parmar, Dharmishta; Sheikh, Shama; Smith, Robert; Evans, Andrew; Blyuss, Oleg; Johns, Louise; Ellis, Ian; Sasieni, Peter; Wale, Chris; Myles, Jonathan; Moss, Sue

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Annual mammography screening at ages 40 49 years conferred a reduction in breast cancer mortality, which was attenuated after 10 years.

Stephen Duffy , Daniel Vulkan , Howard Cuckle , Dharmishta Parmar , Shama Sheikh , Robert Smith , Andrew Evans , Oleg Blyuss , Louise Johns , Ian Ellis , Peter Sasieni , Chris Wale, Jonathan Myles & Sue Moss .

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Stephen Duffy ^1,^*, Daniel Vulkan ¹, Howard Cuckle ², Dharmishta Parmar ¹, Shama Sheikh ³, Robert Smith ⁴, Andrew Evans ⁵, Oleg Blyuss ¹, Louise Johns ³, Ian Ellis ⁶, Peter Sasieni ³, Chris Wale ¹, Jonathan Myles ¹, Sue Moss ¹

¹ Centre for Cancer Prevention, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
³ Cancer Prevention Group, King’s College London, London, UK
⁴ Cancer Screening, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, USA
⁵ Division of Cancer Research, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
⁶ Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, , UK
^* Corresponding author Email: s.w.duffy@qmul.ac.uk

Declared competing interests of authors: Peter Sasieni is a member of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Trials Unit and Policy Research Unit and reports grants from the NIHR. Sue Moss reports grants from the Department of Health and Social Care, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council, the Health Technology Assessment programme, the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society during the conduct of the study.

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