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Review Article| Volume 1, P19-25, September 2019

Digital Mammography

      Mammography has been well established through randomized controlled trials in the 1980s and 1990s to decrease breast cancer mortality. However, these trials accumulated data from patients imaged with analog imaging, one of the very earliest mammography techniques.

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