Fifteen years of Czech brest screening

Brest Cancer Screening—An Alternative View Point

The purpose of breast cancer screening is to save lives. To have confidence that the national programme can achieve this aim it must be shown firstly that mortality reductions have been conclusively demonstrated in a relevant pilot study and secondly that these benefits can be reproduced in everyday practice. The Forrest report [1] was released when the encouraging results of the Health Insuran...

Fifteen Years to Open Source

You can’t change an organization, states the rst rule of change management, unless that organization can be changed. More to the point: you can’t change an organization unless its structure lets you promulgate new policies, implement those policies, and assess their outcome. While this idea might seem self-evident, it has been the shoal on which many companies have foundered. It’s also the key ...

Eurosurveillance - fifteen years of serving Europe.

Screening prescription drugs for possible carcinogenicity: eleven to fifteen years of follow-up.

Using computerized pharmacy records from 1969 to 1973 for a cohort of 143,574 members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, we have been testing associations of 215 drugs or drug groups with subsequent incidence of cancer at 56 sites. This paper presents findings with follow-up through 1984. There were 227 statistically significant (P less than 0.05, two-tailed) associations: 170 posit...

Breast cancer incidence and mortality in Tyrol/Austria after fifteen years of opportunistic mammography screening

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to analyse breast cancer incidence and mortality in Tyrol from 1970 to 2006, namely after performing more than a decade of opportunistic mammography screening and just before piloting an organised screening programme. Our investigation was conducted on a population level. METHODS To study time trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality, we applied the...