This study examined the relationship of psychosocial factors to health-promoting behaviors in sisters of breast cancer patients. One hundred and twenty sisters of breast cancer patients completed questionnaires assessing response efficacy of mammography screenings, physical activity, and fruit and vegetable consumption on decreasing breast cancer risk, breast cancer worry, involvement in their ...

Interpretation of radiological (and other complex medical) images is challenging due to an often overwhelming amount of visual data, much of which is of no consequence and which often serves to confound the observer. In addition, there are well-recognized physiologic obstacles to visual search and recognition, which contribute to false-negative radiological interpretations. The interpretation o...

PURPOSE To compare the speed and accuracy of the interpretations of digital mammograms by radiologists by using printed-film versus soft-copy display. MATERIALS AND METHODS After being trained in interpretation of digital mammograms, eight radiologists interpreted 63 digital mammograms, all with old studies for comparison. All studies were interpreted by all readers in soft-copy and printed-f...

Automatic detection of normal mammograms, as a “first look” for breast cancer, is a new approach to computer-aided diagnosis. This approach may be limited, however, by twomain causes. The first problem is the presence of poorly separable “crossed-distributions” in which the correct classification depends upon the value of each feature. The second problem is overlap of the feature distributions ...

Performing regular mammographic screening and comparing corresponding mammograms taken from multiple views or at different times are necessary for early detection and treatment evaluation of breast cancer, which is key to successful treatment. However, mammograms taken at different times are often obtained under different compression, orientation, or body position. A temporal pair of mammograms...

Women who carry mutations in either the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are at risk for early-onset breast cancer and are recommended to begin screening mammography at age 25 to 30 years. Results of in vitro and animal studies suggest that BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers are hypersensitive to ionizing radiation and possibly to radiationinduced breast cancer. This study was undertaken to investigate the asso...

The extent of breast tissue density on mammograms is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. The aim of this analysis was to evaluate whether tamoxifen can affect mammographic breast density. Subjects were participants in the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast Project Breast Cancer Prevention Trial (BCPT), recruited and followed at the Breast Center of Saint-Sacrement Hospital in Qu...

Abstract Aims Self Directed Aftercare (SDA) was introduced in the Belfast Trust August 2012. It offered breast cancer patients treated with curative intent an opportunity to self-manage their 5 year follow up, including annual mammograms. We reviewed enrolment and outcomes for first cohort reaching years (diagnosed 2013). Methods The prospective SDA database identified on pathway. Additional ou...

Breast Cancer (BC) is considered the most commonly scrutinized cancer in women worldwide, affecting one eight a lifetime. Mammography screening becomes such standard method that helpful identifying suspicious masses’ malignancy of BC at an initial level. However, prior identification masses mammograms was still challenging for extremely dense and breast categories needs effective automatic mech...

The pattern and density of mammograms have been shown to be associated with proliferative histopathology and an increased risk of breast cancer. We recently found that epithelial atypia in nipple aspirate fluid obtained 10-18 years earlier was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In the present study we examined the association between the cytology of nipple aspirate fluid and ma...