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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the support of Pfizer Spain, which facilitated the necessary meetings to evaluate and discuss all the data presented in this review, and Dr. Fernando Sánchez-Barbero from HealthCo SL (Madrid, Spain) for assistance in the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Breast Radiology Department, UDIAT Centre Diagnòstic, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí, Parc Taulí, S/N, 08208, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

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Sentís, M. Imaging diagnosis of young women with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat 123 (Suppl 1), 11–13 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-010-1048-z

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