Tsuruda, Kaitlyn M.
Hovda, Tone
Bhargava, Sameer
Veierød, Marit B.
Hofvind, Solveig http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0178-8939
Funding for this research was provided by:
Dam Foundation (2018/FO201362)
Article History
Received: 30 March 2020
Revised: 11 August 2020
Accepted: 22 September 2020
First Online: 12 November 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Solveig Hofvind.
: SH is the head of BreastScreen Norway. The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise (Marit B. Veierød).
: Written informed consent was not required for this study because the Cancer Registry Regulations waive the requirement for informed consent for surveillance and quality assurance projects based on data collected as a part of invitation to and/or participation in BreastScreen Norway.
: Institutional Review Board approval was not required because this was a quality assurance project. Approval was obtained from the Oslo University Hospital data protection official for research (PVO 2016-4696).
: Some study subjects may have been previously reported in other studies using population-based breast cancer data from the Cancer Registry of Norway.The study sample from the submitted manuscript partially overlaps with a study submitted in March 2020 to European Radiology by Hovda T, Tsuruda KM, Hoff SR et al (2020) Radiological review of prior screening mammograms of screen-detected breast cancer. Eur Radiol.ExternalRef removed. The article by Hovda et al focuses on the mammographic features of true, missed, and minimal signs screen-detected breast cancer.This article focuses on the survival associated with true, missed, and minimal signs breast cancer, both screen-detected and interval breast cancer, and does not discuss the mammographic features associated with these classifications.
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