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Re: Reason for Late-Stage Breast Cancer: Absence of Screening or Detection, or Breakdown in Follow-Up?
Correspondence to: Alice S. Whittemore, PhD, Department of Health Research and Policy, Redwood Building, Room T204, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5405 (e-mail: alicesw@stanford.edu).
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In their article, Taplin et al. (1) used data from enrollees in seven large health care plans to examine differences in screening implementation among women with late-stage and early-stage breast cancer. Late-stage cancers were defined as metastatic cancers or cancers 3 cm or more in size; all other invasive cancers were considered early-stage. The authors found that the odds of having a late-stage cancer were statistically significantly higher among
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J Natl Cancer Inst 2005 97: 400-401.