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Table 1 Survival percentage: women not dying from breast cancer without and with repeated screening over 15 years.

From: What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?

Age

No screening*

10% RRR†

20% RRR

30% RRR

  

with screening

with screening

with screening

40

99.52%

99.57%

99.62%

99.67%

45

99.32%

99.39%

99.45%

99.52%

50

99.12%

99.21%

99.29%

99.38%

55

98.95%

99.06%

99.16%

99.27%

60

98.82%

98.94%

99.06%

99.18%

65

98.73%

98.85%

98.98%

99.11%

  1. * Survival percentage without screening is 100 times the complement of the screen-free absolute death risk from Figure 1.
  2. † Survival percentage with screening is the same as the reduction in absolute death risk in percentage form from Figure 1 added to column 2 of this table.