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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005 97(6):461; doi:10.1093/jnci/dji061
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© 2005 Oxford University Press

CORRESPONDENCE

Re: Breast Cancer Screening Comes Full Circle

Stephen H. Taplin, William E. Barlow, Marianne Ulcickas-Yood, Emily Westbrook, Ann M. Geiger, Kimberley Bischoff, Laura Ichikawa

Affiliations of authors: Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD (SHT); Cancer Research and Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle (WEB); Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA (WEB, EW, LI); Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI (MU-Y); Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena, CA (AMG); Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, CO (KB)

Correspondence to: Stephen H. Taplin, MD, MPH, Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, 6310 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852–7344 (e-mail: Taplins@mail.nih.gov).

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Our recent study (1) of the implementation of mammography in integrated health systems stimulated criticism by Dr. Baum (2) for failing to recognize the tautology that screen-detected cancers are good, interval cancers are bad, and "noncompliant" women tend to have bad disease. Regarding his interpretation of our study, Baum concluded that "I could be wrong."

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