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Published in final edited form as: Ultrasound Med Biol. 2017 Oct 26;44(1):37–70. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2017.09.012

Table 2.

Relative risk (RR) of breast-cancer mortality with Mammography Screening

Author/Year Accrual period Study recruitment Relative risk of breast-cancer mortality
≥50 years (Age, RR)
Relative risk of breast-cancer mortality
<50 years (Age, RR)
(Nystrom, et al. 2002) Up to 1996 247010 women
Invited group
129750,
Control group
117260
50–54y, 55–59y, 60–64y, 65–69y
RR=0.95,0.76, 0.68, 0.69, respectively
-
(Bastardis-Zakas, et al. 2010) 1988–2006 Meta-analyses of
eight randomized control trials
- 40–49y RR=0.81
(Moss, et al. 2006) 1963–1990 160,921 women - 40–49y RR= 0·83 [95% CI 0·66–1·04], p=0·11
(Humphrey, et al. 2002) 1963–1982 Reviewed 154
publications from
ten trials
≥ 50 y RR= 0.78 (95%CI, 0.70 to 0.87) < 50 y RR=0.85
95%CI, 0.73 to 0.99)
(Nelson, et al. 2009) 1986–2006 Meta-analysis of seven
Mammography
Screening Trials
50–59y RR=0.86 (0.75–0.99)
60–69y RR= 0.68 (0.54–0.87)
39–49y RR=0.85(0.75–0.96
(Donna Fitzpatrick-Lewis 2011) 2008–2010 Systematic review
Randomized
controlled trials
50–69y seven studies RR=0.79(0.68–0.90)
≥ 70y two trials RR=0.68(0.45–1.01)
Eight trials 39–49y RR=0.85 (0.75–0.96)
two trials 39–49y RR=0.97(0.91–1.04)
(Miller, et al. 2014) 1980–85
25-year- follow up
89,835 women
Randomized
controlled trials
40–59y hazard ratio 1.05 (0.85 to 1.30)
The findings for women aged 40–49 and 50–59 were almost identical
(Hamashima, et al. 2015) 1985 – 2014 Randomized
controlled trials on
PubMed and other
databases
40–74 years without clinical breast examination RR=0.75
40–64 years with clinical breast examination RR= 0.87