If You Don’t Find It Often, You Often Don’t Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening

Karla K. Evans; Robyn L. Birdwell; Jeremy M. Wolfe

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064366

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If You Don’t Find It Often, You Often Don’t Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening

Karla K. Evans ,

* E-mail: kevans@search.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Robyn L. Birdwell,

Affiliation Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Jeremy M. Wolfe

Affiliation Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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If You Don’t Find It Often, You Often Don’t Find It: Why Some Cancers Are Missed in Breast Cancer Screening

Karla K. Evans,
Robyn L. Birdwell,
Jeremy M. Wolfe

Published: May 30, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064366

About the Authors

Karla K. Evans

* E-mail: kevans@search.bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Robyn L. Birdwell

Affiliation Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jeremy M. Wolfe

Affiliation Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKE RLB JMW. Performed the experiments: KKE. Analyzed the data: KKE JMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RLB. Wrote the paper: KKE RLB JMW.

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