Evaluating Population-Based Screening Mammography Programs Internationally

individualized breast cancer screening versus population-based mammography screening programs

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Dosimetric Techniques for Mammography Mass Screening Programs

Mortality reductions due to mammography screening: Contemporary population-based data

Our objective was to compare breast cancer mortality in two regions of the Republic of Ireland that introduced a screening programme eight years apart, and to estimate the steady-state mortality deficits the programme will produce. We carried out age- and year-matched between-region comparison of breast cancer mortality rates, and of incidence rates of stage 2-4 breast cancer, in the eligible c...

The Dutch Population-Based Mammography Screening: 30-Year Experience

Zusammenfassung Basierend auf den Ergebnissen der beiden Mammographie-Pilotprojekte zur Brustkrebsfrüherkennung in Nijmegen and Utrecht wurde 1989 in den Niederlanden ein bevölkerungsbezogenes Programm ins Leben gerufen. Die Hauptcharakteristika des Programms sind die zentralisierte Organisation, einschließlich der zentralisierten technischen und medizinischen Qualitätskontrolle und Überprüfung...

Overdiagnosis in screening mammography in Denmark: population based cohort study

OBJECTIVE To use data from two longstanding, population based screening programmes to study overdiagnosis in screening mammography. DESIGN Population based cohort study. SETTING Copenhagen municipality (from 1991) and Funen County (from 1993), Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 57,763 women targeted by organised screening, aged 56-69 when the screening programmes started, and followed up to 2009. MA...