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Cancer Characteristics and Time to Detection in Hypothetical Scenarios
Note.—Data are numbers of cancers with a given characteristic. ER = estrogen receptor, PR = progesterone receptor.
*The time difference between actual detection in the screening program starting at age 40 years and the hypothetical scenario (age-based or risk-based) eligibility.
