mammography screening
Overdiagnosis in organised mammography screening in Denmark. A comparative study
... other mammography screening pro- grammes, likely because the Danish programme has low uptake, a deliberately conservative attitude towards microcalcifications, and low recall ...whether screening is ...
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Mammography screening in Nigeria – a critical comparison to other countries
... that mammography screening is of optimal benefit to women from 47 years to 73 years, as periodic screening within this age range reduces the women’s chances of dying as a result of breast cancer 22 ...
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Personalized Mammography Screening and Screening Adherence : A Simulation and Economic Evaluation
... of screening is to reduce mortality from breast cancer by allowing a stage shift from later cancers to early cancers at ...mammographic screening is not sensitive enough to find all treatable cancers and, ...
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Patient Satisfaction in Croatian Nationwide Mammography Screening Program
... Mammographic screening programs are essential in timely detection and ef- fective treatment of breast ...biannual mammography for all women 50 - 69 years of age. First-visit screening attendance in ...
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Health behavioural theories and their application to women's participation in mammography screening
... of mammography screening within a community (Lor et ...free mammography screening programme might be a very important facilitator to encourage women to participate in regular breast ...the ...
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Long term prognosis of breast cancer detected by mammography screening or other methods
... (mammography screening = 0, outside screening = 1), grade (well-differ- entiated = 0, moderately or poorly differentiated = 1), ER and progesterone receptor (PR) status (positive = 0, negative = 1), ...
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Are benefits and harms in mammography screening given equal attention in scientific articles? A cross-sectional study
... on mammography screening that described a benefit or a harm, or both, that were pub- lished in English in 2004 and were identified in a compre- hensive PubMed search; (exp breast neoplasm/all OR "breast ...
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Benefits and harms of mammography screening
... randomized mammography screening trials, however, this is not the case; screening was associated with an increase in the number of mastectomies of about 20% ...that mammography increased both ...
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Population-based service mammography screening: the Icelandic experience
... 2-year screening rounds is affected by the following screening program decisions: (1) The invitation process takes into account the timing of the last mammography regardless of whether it was a ...
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Effectiveness of and overdiagnosis from mammography screening in the Netherlands : population based study
... to screening in 1998 led to a sudden increase in rates followed by further increases until the advent of digital mammography, which prompted new noticeable rate ...to screening were not followed by a ...
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Danish Quality Database for Mammography Screening
... entire screening process and includes variables required to determine the following eleven indi- cators: 1) radiation exposure, 2) participation among invited women and participation within the target population, ...
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Systematic reviews as a “lens of evidence”: determinants of benefits and harms of breast cancer screening
... the screening approaches were not seen to evolve with time, although some recent updates of the guidelines reported lower importance of mammography screening for younger women compared to earlier ...
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Conclusions in systematic reviews of mammography for breast cancer screening and associations with review design and author characteristics
... to mammography, an analysis of mostly primary studies showed that authors who worked directly in mammography screening were more likely to downplay or reject over-diagnosis than other authors ...
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Communicating Risks to Patients and the Public
... regular mammography screening the mortality from breast cancer is claimed to be reduced from 5 to 4 per 1000 ...that screening did not change women’s overall ...
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Modeling of Sic Power Semiconductor Devices For Switching Converter Applications
... Mammography screening for breast cancer reduces mortality from breast cancer when women receive timely follow-up and appropriate treatment (7, ...receive mammography screening have abnormal ...
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2371.pdf
... One such system to consider is the Carolina Mammography Registry (CMR) which is an electronic mammography screening database that has patient and physician reminde[r] ...
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Health professionals, their medical interventions and uncertainty : a study focusing on women at midlife
... breast screening with mammography, screening for risk of osteoporosis (brittle bones) using bone densitometry and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), used for the relief of symptoms of the menopause ...
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Screening for breast cancer : medicalization, visualization and the embodied experience
... funded mammography screening programme inviting all women aged 50-70 years for mammography every three years (Advisory committee on Breast Cancer Screening, ...population screening ...
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Compression force behaviours: An exploration of the beliefs and values influencing the application of breast compression during screening mammography
... one mammography screening centre 6 identified a surprising variability in the amount of compression force applied for similar breast types, with practitioners aligned with consistently low, intermediate or ...
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Value analysis of digital breast tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening in a commercially-insured US population
... a mammography screening modality substan- tially reduces the need for follow-up diagnostic services and improves detection of invasive cancers, allowing for earlier, less costly ...digital screening ...
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