COMPARATIVE MAMMOGRAPHY STUDY

Overdiagnosis in organised mammography screening in Denmark. A comparative study

BACKGROUND Overdiagnosis in cancer screening is the detection of cancer lesions that would otherwise not have been detected. It is arguably the most important harm. We quantified overdiagnosis in the Danish mammography screening programme, which is uniquely suited for this purpose, as only 20% of the Danish population has been offered organised mammography screening over a long time-period. M...

Breast cancer mortality in organised mammography screening in Denmark: comparative study

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the previously observed 25% reduction in breast cancer mortality in Copenhagen following the introduction of mammography screening was indeed due to screening, by using an additional screening region and five years additional follow-up. DESIGN We used Poisson regression analyses adjusted for changes in age distribution to compare the annual percentage change in ...

Study of Screening Mammography Frequency and Related Variables in Women Referring to the Mammography Center, Mousavi Hospital, Zanjan

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, and screening is the best way to make an early diagnosis. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of screening mammography and related variables in the mammography center of Mousavi Hospital, located in Zanjan, Iran. Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study. Study sample size was 526 women who were selected by...

Mammography (5)

From the Book of Mammography by Dr. Zabihollah Arnavaz - Professor and Head of Radiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Iran.

Feasibility study of self-compression in mammography