Promoting Breast Cancer Surveillance: The EMPOWER Study, a Randomized Clinical Trial in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
CONCLUSION: Use of mailed materials followed by telephone-delivered counseling increased mammography screening rates in survivors at high risk for breast cancer; however, this approach did not increase the rate of breast MRI. Cost of imaging and physician recommendation were important barriers that should be addressed in future studies.
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Source: Clinical Breast Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Oeffinger KC, Ford JS, Moskowitz CS, Chou JF, Henderson TO, Hudson MM, Diller L, McDonald A, Ford J, Mubdi NZ, Rinehart D, Vukadinovich C, Gibson TM, Anderson N, Elkin EB, Garrett K, Rebull M, Leisenring W, Robison LL, Armstrong GT Tags: J Clin Oncol Source Type: research
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