Screening Mammography

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Karlsson YA, Malmstrom PO, Hatschek T, et al. Multimodality treatment of 128 patients with locally advanced breast carcinoma in the era of mammography screening using standard polychemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide prognostic and therapeutic implications. Cancer 1998 83 936-947. 

Persson I, Thurfjell E, Bergstrom R, Holmberg L. Hormone replacement therapy and the risk of breast cancer. Nested case-control study in a cohort of Swedish women attending mammography screening. Int J Cancer 1997 72(5) 758-61. 

Randomized trial for mammography screening for women with Medicare United States Total exemption from fee or reimbursement of 80 percent of subsidized fee, provided patient meets Medicare deductible... 

Dole, G.F., and PA. Carney. 1998. "Characteristics of Underserved Women Who Did and Those Who Did Not Use A Free/Low-Cost Voucher as Part of a Mammography Screening Program." Journal of Cancer Education 13 (2) 102-107. 

A number of calculators are available on the internet to estimate a patient s risk of developing breast cancer. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has an online version of the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool that is considered the most authoritative and accurate standard (http //brca.nci.nih.gov/brc/ql.htm). This tool used the original Gail Model, named after the author of a number of publications that described the scientific basis for risk calculations and applied it to data from the Breast Cancer Detection and Demonstration Project, a mammography screening project conducted in the 1970s. The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool was designed for health professionals to project a women s individualized risk for invasive breast cancer over a 5-year period and over her lifetime. 

Fig. 3.17. Examples of a good (a) and a bad (b) contrast response (5MP LCD monitor used in mammography screening)...

Fig. 6.2. Fifty-one-year-old female with microcalcification-associated, 10-mm high-grade DCIS detected during routine mammography screening. Right MLO (a) and CC (b) view with CAD detection marks (iCAD SecondLook V7.2) shown.

Second, the ideal workstation knows about the preferred sequence of actions the radiologist performs with the images and anticipates by enabling easy transition to the next stage. Especially in mammography screening, such sequences can be defined relatively easily. 

Image-management islands clearly decrease the ease with which images can be distributed and make integration more difficult. For the application of mammography screening that may not seem major considerations. These islands also immediately affect... 

Fig. 10.1. Flow chart shows decision tree for double reading in mammography screening. True positive interpretations may include all positive scores for cancers at baseline reading (1), cancers diagnosed at assessment only (2), or also including cancers with true positive scores dismissed at consensus (arbitration) meeting and presenting as interval or subsequent round cancers (3)...

This Swedish study, a retrospective analysis of the data from a population-based mammography screening... 

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