Shieh, Yiwey http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0159-7748
Hu, Donglei
Ma, Lin
Huntsman, Scott
Gard, Charlotte C.
Leung, Jessica W. T.
Tice, Jeffrey A.
Vachon, Celine M.
Cummings, Steven R.
Kerlikowske, Karla
Ziv, Elad
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (P01 CA154292, K24 CA169004, HHSN261201100031C)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32 HP19025)
Article History
Received: 16 June 2016
Accepted: 18 August 2016
First Online: 26 August 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: K. Kerlikowske received support for the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium from the National Cancer Institute, grant P01 CA154292. E. Ziv received support from the National Cancer Institute under grant K24 CA169004. S.R. Cummings received support for the collection of blood specimens from the DaCosta Fund for the Prevention of Breast Cancer, the Clinical Research in Clinical Care (CRCLE) funds provided by the California Pacific Medical Center, and by a grant from the Eli Lilly Foundation. Y. Shieh was supported by a National Research Service Award through the National Institutes of Health T32 HP19025. Data collection for this work was supported by the National Cancer Institute-funded Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (HHSN261201100031C). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or the National Institutes of Health.
: Dr. Jessica Leung receives consultation fees from Hologic, Inc. related to the development of contrast-enhanced mammography.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Specifically, each registry in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium and the Statistical Coordinating Center (SCC) have received institutional review board approval for either active or passive consenting processes or a waiver of consent to enroll participants, link data, and perform analytic studies. All procedures are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliant and all registries and the SCC have received a Federal Certificate of Confidentiality and other protection for the identities of women, physicians, and facilities who are subjects of this research.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.