Costs of diagnostic and preoperative workup with and without breast MRI in older women with a breast cancer diagnosis

BACKGROUND: Breast cancer in the U.S. - estimated at 232,670 incident cases in 2014 - has the highest aggregate economic burden of care relative to other female cancers. Yet, the amount of cost attributed to diagnostic/preoperative work up has not been characterized. We examined the costs of imaging...

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Published in:BMC Health Serv Res
Main Authors: Onega, Tracy, Tosteson, Anna N.A., Weiss, Julie, Alford-Teaster, Jennifer, Hubbard, Rebecca A., Henderson, Louise M., Kerlikowske, Karla, Goodrich, Martha E., O’Donoghue, Cristina, Wernli, Karen J., DeMartini, Wendy B., Virnig, Beth A
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4769533/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26920552
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1317-6
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