Global summit on mammographic screening

Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer

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Improving rates of mammographic screening.

Mammographic Screening for Breast Cancer

N Engl J Med 2003;348:1672-80. Copyright © 2003 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 44-year-old woman who is a new patient has no known current health problems and no family history of breast or ovarian cancer. Eighteen months ago, she had a normal screening mammogram. She recently read that mammograms may not help to prevent death from breast cancer and that “the patient should decide.” But she d...

Mammographic screening: case-control studies.

BACKGROUND The case-control design can be used to evaluate the benefit of cancer screening programmes. MATERIALS AND METHODS This paper outlines the main methodological features of the case-control design in this context, and indicates some potential biases. It also reviews the existing case-control literature on mammographic screening. RESULTS Case-control studies consistently indicate a r...

Global civil society? The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development

In the face of mounting environmental degradation and persistent poverty over the previous decade, Johannesburg’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) of August and September 2002 inherited a number of unmet accords from the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Consequently, the United Nations Stakeholder Forum Implementation Conference (IC) was convened to integrate civil society stakeh...