BACKGROUND There is controversy about whether adding clinical breast examination (CBE) to mammography improves the accuracy of breast screening. We compared the accuracy of screening among centers that offered CBE in addition to mammography with that among centers that offered only mammography. METHODS The cohort included 290 230 women aged 50-69 years who were screened at regional cancer cen...

According to Autier and colleagues, little of the decline in the breast cancer death rate in northern Europe can be attributed to screening mammography. Similar concerns in the United States led its Preventive Services Task Force to endorse the elimination of routine screening in women younger than 50 and the reduction of screening from every year to every two years in older women. The recommen...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that rural populations had lower uptake of screening mammography than urban populations in the Scottish and Australian setting. METHOD Scottish data are based upon information from the Scottish Breast Screening Programme Information System describing uptake among women residing within the NHS Highland Health Board area who were invited to attend for screening ...

Controversy and publicity about the value of mammography screening programs continue in Europe and across the globe. As Europe's breast cancer advocacy organisation, Europa Donna-The European Breast Cancer Coalition advocates for mammography screening as one of the essential services to which all women should have access, stipulating, however, that mammography screening programs must be set up ...

In screening for secondary prevention of breast cancer, clinical breast examination (CBE) combined with mammography may improve overall screening sensitivity compared with mammography alone. A systematic evaluation of the relative expenses and projected benefit of combining these two screening modalities is not presently available. We addressed this issue using a microsimulation model incorpora...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the coverage of opportunistic mammography screening performed via the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS, Unified Health Care System), at the state and regional level, in 2013. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was an ecological study in which coverage was estimated by determining the ratio between the number of mammograms performed and the expected number of mammograms amon...

?Screening for Breast Cancer with Mammography? is a Cochrane systematic review originally published by Peter Gøtzsche and Karsten Jørgensen in 2001 and updated multiple times by 2013. In the 2013 article, the authors discuss the reliability of the results from different clinical trials involving mammography and provide their conclusions about whether mammography screening is useful in preventin...

Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies among women, with approximately 3% of women dying from the disease and approximately 12% of those who live to 80 years of age being diagnosed with it at some point during their lifetime.1 Although screening mammography reduces breast cancer–specific mortality, women may overestimate its benefit.2 Biennial mammography is recommended for all wo...

BACKGROUND Women not offered screening mammography reported higher levels of negative psychosocial aspects than women offered screening. This was demonstrated in a questionnaire survey where 1000 women were included: 500 women living in areas where the public authorities had never offered screening mammography and 500 women living in areas where women had been invited to screening mammography f...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated mammography rates for cognitively impaired women in the context of their life expectancies, given that guidelines do not recommend screening mammography in women with limited life expectancies because harms outweigh benefits. METHODS We evaluated Medicare claims for women aged 70 years or older from the 2002 wave of the Health and Retirement Study to determine which wo...