[PDF] Top 20 Sensitivity of screening mammography by density and texture: a cohort study from a population based screening program in Denmark

... Background: Screening mammography works better in fatty than in dense breast ...parenchymal texture is a non-subjective method to obtain a refined description of breast tissue, potentially valuable ... See full document

... the mammography screening examination itself or in relation to waiting for or dealing with the results of the screening ...present study examined stress as a reflection of the women’s general ... See full document

... organised, population-based screening mammography program started in April ...for screening every second year. Screening took place in a specialised ...two. From ... See full document

... This study was limited to those women who attended screening and the size of breast tumors was generally ...the sensitivity and specificity of diagnosing breast tumors based on symptoms were ... See full document

... death from causes other than breast cancer, or the end of the follow-up period, whichever came ...the screening program had a shorter follow-up ... See full document

... death from causes other than breast cancer, or the end of the follow-up period, whichever came ...the screening program had a shorter follow-up ... See full document

... the cohort of women who got access to the program in ...biennial screening invitation (bottom panel Table 2) because the number of invitations they received compared to the number of invitations ... See full document

... the screening target group of 50 –69-year-old women compared to an un- screened group of 20 –49-year-old women [13] ...reported from two studies in Norway [13,26] . A recent study described that the ... See full document

... 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 ...year) from 1989 to 1993, and ... See full document

... Our study has several ...to screening and that mortality trends would follow trends prevailing before the shifts observed in the ...comparison population with or without low participation to ...1997. ... See full document

... organised screening pro- gramme and therefore have no well-defined pre- and post- screening period, ...without screening, as all areas have screening in private ...screened from they ... See full document

... of screening is to reduce the mortality of the disease without affecting the quality of life of the attending ...that screening leads to over-diagnosis of small slow growing or wrongly diagnosed cancers ... See full document

... Screening sensitivity may also vary according to tumour aggressiveness. Aggressive cancers progress rapidly through the preclinical phase, therefore, narrowing the window of opportunity to detect them, ... See full document

... Nevertheless we cannot exclude the presence of a resi- dual self-selection bias. It should be noted that the issue of comparability between attenders and non-attenders is the main limita- tion of this study and it ... See full document

... reduced sensitivity at high compression levels. This reduction in sensitivity could be due to either ma- lignancies not being seen or being seen but mischarac- terized, or due to both types of ... See full document

... of mammography screening with screening introduced in half of the country in 2000 (Phase 1, in “Region 1’) and the West and the South of the country only initiating screening at the end of ... See full document

... breast density play specific and in- dependent roles in each category of interval ...to screening-detected cancers, high breast density being strongly associated with occult ...breast density ... See full document

... Biennial screening is common in European countries, while in the USA, women are mostly screened yearly ...negative screening mammogram, we found that in the lower density categories, only a small ... See full document

... We computed a knowledge score with a range of 0 to 3 by adding the number of correct answers. We used multivariate ordered logistic regression to estimate the relationship between the ordinal score variable and five ... See full document

... observational population-based data from the BCCR, SMPBC, and BCCA we can be confident that these results reflect the BC experience, but there may be patient risk factors, regional differences, or ... See full document