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Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women: The Importance of Shared Decision Making

Sarina Schrager, Viktoriya Ovsepyan and Elizabeth Burnside
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2020, 33 (3) 473-480; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.03.190380

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