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Comment & Response
November 2018

Concern Regarding Age Distribution of Breast Cancer—Reply

Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston
JAMA Surg. 2018;153(11):1061. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.2088

In Reply We thank Cronin and Berry for their letter and for the opportunity to elaborate on our findings beyond the space limitation associated with our publication.1 We respectfully disagree that we have misinterpreted the age distribution data. We contend that an intervention policy that considers only age-associated incidence rates may be incomplete when it comes to health issues in nonwhite populations given the differences in disease patterns.

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