Controversies in the mammography screening programme in Switzerland

Controversies in the mammography screening programme in Switzerland.

Recently, the Swiss Medical Board [1] issued a report stating that systematic mammography screening programmes for early detection of breast cancer are no longer reasonable for women to attend. A systematic review of the existing literature allowed the Board to conclude that the effectiveness of mammography is still uncertain, over-diagnosis and false positive tests cause harm, and the screenin...

Cost-effectiveness of opportunistic versus organised mammography screening in Switzerland.

BACKGROUND Various centralised mammography screening programmes have shown to reduce breast cancer mortality at reasonable costs. However, mammography screening is not necessarily cost-effective in every situation. Opportunistic screening, the predominant screening modality in several European countries, may under certain circumstances be a cost-effective alternative. In this study, we compared...

Controversies on Mammography Screening in the World and Bahceşehir Population-Based Organized Mammography Screening Project in Turkey.

Screening mammography controversies: resolved, partly resolved, and unresolved.

Since the 1960s, multiple randomized clinical trials have measured differences in breast cancer mortality between women 40 and 70 years of age who were offered screening mammography and control group women. This article describes briefly these trials, which nearly universally documented statistically significant reductions in breast cancer deaths. These trials also underestimated the benefit, r...

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...