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Breast Cancer

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

NEWS:

Benefits of breast screening in real world questioned

Breast Self-Exams: One Way to Detect Breast Cancer

HRT Can Cloud Breast Cancer Screens

Needle Biopsy May Be Better for Initial Evaluation of Breast Cancer

New Mammogram Finds More Cases

New Technique Spots Small Breast Tumors

PET Mammography May Detect Small Primary Breast Malignancies

Practice Improves Mammogram Diagnosis

Scan could cut breast removal ops

Study: Mammograms Painless for Most Women

Study: Mammos May Not Halt Breast Cancer Deaths

Women want information, opportunity to participate in decision for first mammogram

ARTICLES:

AHRQ - Genetic Risk Assessment and BRCA Mutation Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer Susceptibility (2005)

Cervical Cancer Screening in the HPV Era: What Is the Standard of Care?

How To Get The Most From Your Mammogram

Mammography

NGC - American Society of Clinical Oncology guideline recommendations for sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage breast cancer. (2005)

NGC - Breast masses. (2005)

NGC - Diagnosis of breast disease. (2003)

NGC - Procedure guideline for breast scintigraphy. (2004)

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. (2004)

Studies Show Benefits of Mammograms

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Issues Guidelines for BRCA Mutation Testing

Wrong Diagnosis - Symptoms of Breast Cancer

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A meta-analysis of FDG-PET for the evaluation of breast cancer recurrence and metastases. (Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2005)

Accuracy of sonographically guided 14-gauge core-needle biopsy: Results of 715 consecutive breast biopsies with at least two-year follow-up of benign lesions. (J Clin Ultrasound. 2005)

Are there downsides to mammography screening? (Breast J. 2005)

Association between mammographic breast density and breast cancer tumor characteristics. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005)

Baseline staging tests after a new diagnosis of breast cancer: further evidence of their limited indications. (Ann Oncol. 2005)

Breast cancer screening, diagnostic accuracy and health care policies

Breast cancer yield for screening mammographic examinations with recommendation for short-interval follow-up. (Radiology. 2005)

Breast imaging in general practice. (Aust Fam Physician. 2005)

[Breast MRI in invasive lobular carcinoma: diagnosis and staging] (J Radiol. 2005)

Breast Protection

Breast self-examination and breast awareness: a literature review (Journal of Clinical Nursing 2005)

Comparison of 1- and 2-year screening intervals for women undergoing screening mammography. (Br J Cancer. 2005)

Determination of the presence and extent of pure ductal carcinoma in situ by mammography and magnetic resonance imaging. (Breast J. 2005)

Ductal lavage of fluid-yielding and non-fluid-yielding ducts in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers and other women at high inherited breast cancer risk. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2005)

Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI and sonography in patients receiving primary chemotherapy for breast cancer. (Eur Radiol. 2005)

Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from breast cancer. (N Engl J Med. 2005)

Efficacy of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening in Women With a Familial or Genetic Predisposition. (Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2005)

Evaluation and outcomes of women with a breast lump and a normal mammogram result. (J Gen Intern Med. 2005)

Evaluation of a Danish teaching program in breast self-examination. (Cancer Nurs. 2005)

Evaluation of hereditary risk in a mammography population. (Clin Breast Cancer. 2005)

Factors of importance for scintigraphic non-visualisation of sentinel nodes in breast cancer. (Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2005)

Hereditary breast cancer growth rates and its impact on screening policy. (Eur J Cancer. 2005)

Impact of breast density on computer-aided detection for breast cancer. (AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005)

Importance of physical examination in the absence of a mammographic abnormality for the detection of early-stage breast cancer. (Clin Breast Cancer. 2005)

Increased incidence of invasive breast cancer after the introduction of service screening with mammography in Sweden. (Int J Cancer. 2005)

Is age at diagnosis an independent prognostic factor for survival following breast cancer? (ANZ J Surg. 2005)

Mammographic Density and Breast Cancer Risk. (Am J Epidemiol. 2005)

Mammographic density and the risk of breast cancer in Japanese women. (Br J Cancer. 2005)

Mammographic screening reduces risk of breast carcinoma recurrence. (Cancer)

Mammography, Breast Ultrasound, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Surveillance of Women at High Familial Risk for Breast Cancer. (J Clin Oncol. 2005)

Model of outcomes of screening mammography: information to support informed choices. (BMJ. 2005)

MRI measurements of breast tumor volume predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and recurrence-free survival. (AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005)

Multicentre validation study of sentinel node biopsy for staging in breast cancer. (Br J Surg. 2005)

Multidetector row computed tomography for diagnosing intraductal extension of breast carcinoma. (J Surg Oncol. 2005)

Patients' resistance to risk information in genetic counseling for BRCA1/2. (Arch Intern Med. 2005)

Patterns of reduced nipple aspirate fluid production and ductal lavage cellularity in women at high risk for breast cancer. (Breast Cancer Res. 2005)

Performance benchmarks for diagnostic mammography. (Radiology. 2005)

Physician predictors of mammographic accuracy. (J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005)

Predicting Biopsy Outcome After Mammography: What Is the Likelihood the Patient Has Invasive or In Situ Breast Cancer? (Ann Surg Oncol. 2005)

Prospective Comparison of 3 {gamma}-Probes for Sentinel Lymph Node Detection in 200 Breast Cancer Patients. (J Nucl Med. 2005)

Prospective comparison of mammography, sonography, and MRI in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for palpable breast cancer. (AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005)

Radiation doses received in the UK Breast Screening Programme in 2001 and 2002. (Br J Radiol. 2005)

Randomised controlled trial of mammographic screening in women from age 40: predicted mortality based on surrogate outcome measures. (Br J Cancer. 2005)

Randomised controlled trial of mammographic screening in women from age 40: results of screening in the first 10 years. (Br J Cancer. 2005)

Rate of breast cancer diagnoses among postmenopausal women with self-reported breast symptoms. (J Am Board Fam Pract)

[Re-Evaluating the Role of Breast Ultrasound in Current Diagnostics of Maligne Breast Lesions.] (Ultraschall Med)

Role of axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with pure ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. (BMC Cancer. 2005)

Screening for breast cancer. (JAMA. 2005)

Screening mammography controversies: resolved, partly resolved, and unresolved. (Breast J. 2005)

Screening with magnetic resonance imaging and mammography of a UK population at high familial risk of breast cancer: a prospective multicentre cohort study (MARIBS) (The Lancet 2005)

Screening women at high risk for breast cancer with mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (Cancer 2005)

Sentinel lymph node biopsy for ductal carcinoma in situ: an evolving approach at the University of Florida. (Breast J. 2005)

Site of Primary Tumor Has a Prognostic Role in Operable Breast Cancer: The International Breast Cancer Study Group Experience (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

[Surveillance in women with early breast cancer, systematic versus symptom guided follow-up] (Zentralbl Gynakol. 2005)

The Accuracy of Ultrasound, Stereotactic, and Clinical Core Biopsies in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, With an Analysis of False-Negative Cases. (Ann Surg. 2005)

The incremental contribution of clinical breast examination to invasive cancer detection in a mammography screening program. (AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2005)

The psychological impact of mammographic screening. A systematic review. (Psychooncology. 2005)

Thomsen-Friedenreich and Tn antigens in nipple fluid: carbohydrate biomarkers for breast cancer detection. (Clin Cancer Res. 2005)

Too much, too soon? Patients and health professionals' views concerning the impact of genetic testing at the time of breast cancer diagnosis in women under the age of 40. (Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 2005)

Utility of Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients With Occult Primary Breast Cancer. (Ann Surg Oncol. 2005)

Utility of initial MRI for predicting extent of residual disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: analysis of 70 breast cancer patients. (Oncol Rep)

Vitamin D and Calcium Intakes from Food or Supplements and Mammographic Breast Density (Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 2005)

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