Background Screening with mammography can detect breast cancer early, before clinical
symptoms appear. Some cancers, however, are not captured with mammography screening …

This article focuses on breast cancer screening in the general population. Using an
evidence-based medicine approach, a review of the current literature was undertaken to …

Long-term survival in breast cancer currently rests on detection and appropriate therapy at
the earliest possible stage, with survival being excellent in patients whose cancers are …

Increasing attention to self‐detection of breast masses and clinical breast examination
during this century have contributed to a progressive reduction in the size of breast cancers …

Screening mammography is a powerful tool for reducing breast cancer mortality.
Mammography can often detect clinically occult, early-stage breast cancer that is amenable …

Breast cancer screening has provoked some of the more intensive debate in medicine.
Breast cancer is an appropriate disease for screening based on accepted criteria: Current …

Despite strong epidemiologic evidence that screening for breast cancer with mammography
and clinical breast examination results in mortality reductions, and the considerable effort to …

Background Breast cancer screening with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be a
useful adjunct to screening mammography in high-risk women, but MRI uptake may be …

Purpose: To synthesize new data on breast cancer screening for the US Preventive Services
Task Force. Data Sources: MEDLINE; the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry; and …

I was taught that 95% of breast cancers are first found by the patient. More recent studies
suggest that this ha~ changed with increased and earlier detection by physicians on …