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Breast Cancer

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Annual Breast MRI Urged for High-Risk Women

Breast Cancer Detection by New Method

Breast cancer test may predict chemo benefit

Breast Exams Not Standard, Study Says; No Data Available On Efficacy, Either

Breast Screening Every 2 Years May Be OK

High number of tumour cells may affect breast cancer outcomes

Milk Duct Test May Not Detect Cancer

MRI does not reduce biopsies in diagnosing breast cancer.

Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis

Scientific Advisers Urge Effort To Get More Women To Have Mammograms

Study Estimates Probability Of Death After Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Study Says Few Women Get Annual Mammograms

Study: MRI Better Than Mammogram In High-Risk Cases

Surveillance of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers With Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrasound, Mammography, and Clinical Breast Examination (JAMA)

The age at which women begin mammographic screening (Cancer)

The Mammogram Mess in America

Two New Studies Profile Prognostic Factors for Breast Cancer

Women aged over 40 who are at increased risk of breast cancer should get annual mammograms

Women With BRCA1/2 May Need Mammogram More Than Once Each Year

ARTICLES:

American Cancer Society Mammograms and Other Breast Imaging Procedures

Breast cancer screening

Breast Cancer: Questions & Answers About Mammography

breast lumps and cancer

Computer-Aided Detection of Breast Cancer: Has Promise Outstripped Performance?

Mammogram

MRI More Sensitive Than Mammography in Women at High Risk of Breast Cancer

MRIs beat mammograms, study finds

NGC-SCREENING FOR BREAST CANCER

NGC-The use of magnetic resonance imaging of the breast (MRIB) for screening of women at high risk of breast cancer.

Websites on screening for breast cancer

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A 2-year soy intervention in premenopausal women does not change mammographic densities. (J Nutr)

A positive margin is not always an indication for radiotherapy after mastectomy in early breast cancer. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys)

A Prospective Study of Breast Cancer Risk Using Routine Mammographic Breast Density Measurements (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

A revised staging system for breast cancer. (Breast J)

Advantages and limitations of FDG PET in the follow-up of breast cancer. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

American Cancer Society guidelines for the early detection of cancer, 2004. (CA Cancer J Clin)

Analysis of the use of specimen mammography in breast conservation therapy. (Am J Surg)

Biennial versus annual mammography and the risk of late-stage breast cancer. (J Natl Cancer Inst)

Biological characterisation of breast cancer by means of PET. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

Breast cancer detection rates, and standardised detection ratios for prevalence screening in the New Zealand breast cancer screening programme. (J Med Screen )

Breast cancer size in postmenopausal women is correlated with body mass index and androgen serum levels. (Gynecol Endocrinol)

Breast Cancer Surveillance in Women with Hereditary Risk Due to BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations. (Clin Breast Cancer)

Breast cancer screening in women aged 80 and older: results from a national survey. (J Am Geriatr Soc)

Breast imaging findings in women with BRCA1- and BRCA2-associated breast carcinoma. (Clin Radiol)

Breast scintigraphy today: indications and limitations. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

Changes in Breast Cancer Detection and Mammography Recall Rates After the Introduction of a Computer-Aided Detection System (Journal of the National Cancer Institute )

Changes in magnetic resonance mammography due to hormone replacement therapy (Breast Cancer Res)

Computer-aided detection in diagnostic mammography: detection of clinically unsuspected cancers. (AJR Am J Roentgenol)

Computer-aided detection output on 172 subtle findings on normal mammograms previously obtained in women with breast cancer detected at follow-up screening mammography. (Radiology)

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging underestimates residual disease following neoadjuvant docetaxel based chemotherapy for breast cancer. (Eur J Surg Oncol)

Contrast-enhanced MR imaging of breast lesions and effect on treatment. (Eur J Surg Oncol)

[Current controversy on the effectiveness of mammographic screening for breast cancer in western nations] (Gan To Kagaku Ryoho)

Decreased rates of advanced breast cancer due to mammography screening in The Netherlands. (Br J Cancer)

Decreasing women's anxieties after abnormal mammograms: a controlled trial. (J Natl Cancer Inst)

Detection by screening mammography is a powerful independent predictor of survival in women diagnosed with breast cancer. (Breast )

Detection of breast cancer on screening mammography allows patients to be treated with less-toxic therapy. (AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005)

Diagnosis and management of ductal carcinoma in situ. (Curr Treat Options Oncol)

Diagnostic Accuracy of Mammography, Clinical Examination, US, and MR Imaging in Preoperative Assessment of Breast Cancer. (Radiology)

Diagnostic delay in breast cancer. (Br J Surg)

Does mammographic density reflect ethnic differences in breast cancer incidence rates? (Am J Epidemiol)

Evaluating organized breast cancer screening implementation: the prevention of late-stage disease? (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev)

Factors contributing to mammography failure in women aged 40-49 years. (J Natl Cancer Inst)

FDG PET and other imaging modalities in the primary diagnosis of suspicious breast lesions. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

FDG PET and tumour markers in the diagnosis of recurrent and metastatic breast cancer. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

Fear, anxiety, worry, and breast cancer screening behavior: a critical review. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev)

Functional impact of breast cancer by age at diagnosis. (J Clin Oncol)

Hormones and mammographic breast density. (Maturitas)

Impact of use of hormone replacement therapy on false positive recall in the NHS breast screening programme: results from the million women study (BMJ)

Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: prospective cohort study (BMJ)

Incidence of Invasive Breast Cancer and Ductal Carcinoma In situ in a Screening Program by Age: Should Older Women Continue Screening? (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention)

Influence of abnormal screens on delays and prognostic indicators of screen-detected breast carcinoma. (J Med Screen)

Influence of annual mammography from age 40 on breast cancer pathology. (Hum Pathol)

Is expert breast pathology assessment necessary for the management of ductal carcinoma in situ ? (Breast Cancer Res Treat)

Magnetic resonance imaging for preoperative evaluation of breast cancer: a comparative study with mammography and ultrasonography. (J Am Coll Surg)

Magnetic resonance imaging of the breast prior to biopsy. (JAMA)

Mammographic criteria for determining the diagnostic value of microcalcifications in the detection of early breast cancer. (J Pak Med Assoc)

Mammographic density and breast cancer after ductal carcinoma in situ. (J Natl Cancer Inst)

Mammographic tumor features can predict long-term outcomes reliably in women with 1-14-mm invasive breast carcinoma. (Cancer)

Mammography benefit in the Canadian National Breast Screening Study-2: A model evaluation (International Journal of Cancer)

Mammography screening and breast cancer mortality in new South wales, australia. (Cancer Causes Control)

Mammography screening in the Netherlands: delay in the diagnosis of breast cancer after breast cancer screening. (Br J Cancer)

Manipulation of the primary breast tumor and the incidence of sentinel node metastases from invasive breast cancer. (Arch Surg)

Missed cancers on mammograms: causes and measures of prevention. (Eur J Gynaecol Oncol)

New technologies in screening for breast cancer: a systematic review of their accuracy. (Br J Cancer)

Nipple discharge and the value of MR imaging. (Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol)

Non-attendance in breast cancer screening is associated with unfavourable socio-economic circumstances and advanced carcinoma. (Int J Cancer)

Obesity and breast cancer screening. (J Gen Intern Med.)

On the efficacy of screening for breast cancer. (Int J Epidemiol)

Overdiagnosis in screening: is the increase in breast cancer incidence rates a cause for concern? (J Med Screen)

[Overdiagnosis in mammography screening.] (Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen)

Patients with Paget disease of nipple and with palpable mass in breast have unfavorable prognosis. (J Exp Clin Cancer Res)

PET/CT and breast cancer. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging)

Positron emission tomography in the staging and management of breast cancer. (Br J Surg)

[Practical aspects of breast ultrasound] (Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax)

Prediction of breast cancer size by ultrasound, mammography and core biopsy. (Breast)

Preoperative breast MRI in patients with invasive lobular breast cancer. (Eur Radiol)

Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study (BMJ)

Prevention and genetic testing for breast cancer: variations in medical decisions. (Soc Sci Med)

Quantitative assessment of mammographic breast density: relationship with breast cancer risk. (Radiology)

Rate of Breast Cancer Diagnoses among Postmenopausal Women with Self-Reported Breast Symptoms. (J Am Board Fam Pract)

Reason for late-stage breast cancer: absence of screening or detection, or breakdown in follow-up? (J Natl Cancer Inst)

Risk for Distant Recurrence of Breast Cancer Detected by Mammography Screening or Other Methods (JAMA)

Screening and cognitive impairment: ethics of forgoing mammography in older women. (J Am Geriatr Soc)

Sensitivity of MRI versus mammography for detecting foci of multifocal, multicentric breast cancer in Fatty and dense breasts using the whole-breast pathologic examination as a gold standard. (AJR Am J Roentgenol)

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping for Primary Breast Cancer. (Curr Oncol Rep. 2005)

Tamoxifen and breast density in women at increased risk of breast cancer. (J Natl Cancer Inst)

The association of bloody nipple discharge with breast pathology. (Surgery)

The influence of preoperative MRI of the breasts on recurrence rate in patients with breast cancer. (Eur Radiol)

The role of magnetic resonance imaging mammography in the surgical management of the index breast cancer. (Arch Surg)

The use of scintimammography for detecting the recurrence of loco-regional breast cancer: histopathologically proven results. (Nucl Med Commun)

The value of sentinel lymph node biopsy in elderly breast cancer patients. (Am J Surg)

[The yield of breast cancer screening: the importance of observational data and the problems of bias] (Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd)

Ultrasound in the Changing Approaches to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment (The Breast Journal)

Ultrasound is now better than mammography for the detection of invasive breast cancer. (Am J Surg)

Ultrasound of the breast - value of sonographic criteria for the differential diagnosis of solid lesions. (Ultraschall Med)

Vitamin d, calcium, and mammographic breast densities. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev)

Websites on screening for breast cancer: not all advocacy groups receive industry funding. (BMJ)

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