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.
Ziv, Elad
Kerlikowske, Karla
Cummings, Steven R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (P01 CA154292, K24 CA169004)
DaCosta Fund for the Prevention of Breast Cancer
Clinical Research in Clinical Care (CRCLE), California Pacific Medical Center
Eli Lilly Foundation
National Institutes of Health (T32 HP19025)
Article History
Received: 25 April 2017
Accepted: 29 July 2017
First Online: 8 August 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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.