Review ArticleClinical Review
Breast Cancer Screening Controversies
Beverly B. Green and Stephen H. Taplin
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Practice May 2003, 16 (3) 233-241; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.16.3.233
Beverly B. Green
MD, MPH
Stephen H. Taplin
MD, MPH

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