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Toward individualized breast cancer screening strategies—TMIST

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Etta D. Pisano, MD
Principal investigator, TMIST
Professor in Residence of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Constantine A. Gatsonis, PhD
Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics, Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University
Peter J. O'Dwyer, MD
Group co-chair, director, ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, Developmental Therapeutics Program, Abramson Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia
Mitchell D. Schnall, MD, PhD
Group co-chair, ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group; Eugene P. Pendergrass Professor of Radiology, The Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor in Residence of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Henry Ledyard Goddard University Professor of Biostatistics, Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Brown University
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