Factors influencing elderly women's mammography screening decisions: implications for counseling
Open Access
- 16 November 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Geriatrics
- Vol. 7 (1) , 26
Abstract
Although guidelines recommend that clinicians consider life expectancy before screening older women for breast cancer, many older women with limited life expectancies are screened. We aimed to identify factors important to mammography screening decisions among women aged 80 and older compared to women aged 65–79.Keywords
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