Mammography - Screening - Breast cancerBiennial breast cancer screening with two-view screen-film mammography started on a nationwide basis in Finland in January 1987. Women have been invited by birth year cohort to attend a free-of-charge examination. The program has progressively expanded to ...
The Efficacy of Mammography and Screening for Breast Cancer Paul R. Garver, MD; Marie Tartar, MD; Vivian Lim, MD Author Affiliations JAMA. 1995;274(5):381. doi:10.1001/jama.1995.03530050028018 Full Text Abstract To the Editor. —Dr Kerlikowske and colleagues1 unfortunately add to the pre...
Screening for breast cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Ann Intern Med. 2009;151(10):716-726, W-236.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 3. Welch HG, Passow HJ. Quantifying the benefits and harms of screening mammography. JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(3):448-454.Pub...
The MM employs the PPCO (Problem, Population, Change, Outcome) format to formulate a question to guide the literature search on a clinical problem.1, 2, 3 The initial evidence-searching question was: In rural primary care settings serving women (P) with low breast cancer screening (BCS) (...
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Digital breast tomosynthesis3D mammographyBackground The purpose of this study is to confirm the position of DBT in breast cancer screening in Japan, to assess cancer detection rates, recall rates, positive predictive value (PPV), and to evaluate the type of mammographic findings of cancer with ...
First introduced in the 1970’s,26mammography is an x-ray procedure that captures a photograph of the human breast used to detect breast cancer. While those who are invested in expensive mammography machinery or who rely on breast cancer screening to earn a living will assure you that mammograp...
Breast cancer screening with mammography. Overview of Swedish randomised trials. Lancet 1993; 341: 973.Nystrom L, Rutqvist LE, Wall S et al. Breast cancer screening with mammography. Overview of Swedish randomised trials. Lancet 1993; 341: 973-8.Nystrom L, Larsson LG. Breast cancer screen- ...
In a study of screening mammography-detected breast cancers, patients who had more frequent screening mammography had a significantly lower rate of lymph node positivity—or cancer cells in the lymph nodes—as compared to women who went longer intervals between screening mammography exams. Results of...
screening from improvements in breast cancer diagnosis and treatments over time. Although we do believe that the evidence supports a likely mortality benefit from mammography, we believe it is most likely modest and almost certainly lower than that suggested by observational studies....