Annual mammography after breast cancer may improve survival.The article reports on the study done in Great Britain related to the regular mammography in patients of breast cancer .WiseJacqui(AUTHOR)EBSCO_AspBmj British Medical Journal
TORONTO — For women with a personal history of breast cancer, surveillance is better with mammography than with MRI because more cancers are detected with mammography in these patients, new research suggests. "We know that screening MRI is appropriate in women with a strong history of breast ...
Annual surveillance with mammography is indicated after initial treatment for early stage breast cancer both to detect recurrent disease and to detect a second primary breast cancer. We utilized a data base that linked Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results data, Medicare data, and elements from th...
They propose that this is merely because after 10 years, women who are initially 40 to 50 years of age ineluctably become a 50- to 60-year-old age group, for which mammography is efficacious. In the body of the article they observe, "The findings suggest that it might be possible to...
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Radiation is usually employed—either to shrink tumours before surgery or to destroy small amounts of cancerous tissue remaining after surgery. Side effects of radiation include swelling or thickening of the breast, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, or skin irritations resembling sunburn. Chemotherapy, the...
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CONCLUSIONS: While the majority of women return for mammographic surveillance following breast cancer, some important subgroups of women at higher risk for recurrence are less likely to return. Research is needed to determine why some women are not undergoing mammography surveillance after a breast ...
Methods All patients with breast cancer diagnosed between 50 and 74 years who were resident in screening areas in the six years before and five years after the start of the screening programme were included. We calculated a corrected-for-lead-time number of observed cases for each calendar year...
All patients with breast cancer diagnosed between 50 and 74 years who were resident in screening areas in the six years before and five years after the start of the screening programme were included. We calculated a corrected-for-lead-time number of observed cases for each calendar year. The ...