Reduced-price mammography screening

Reduced screening mammography among women with diabetes.

BACKGROUND Despite regular health care, preventive health issues may be neglected in patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Case-control studies in the United States have shown lower mammogram rates in women with diabetes; however, it is not known whether the presence of diabetes mellitus affects mammography use in a Canadian setting, where there is universal access to health care. ...

Screening Mammography

OBJECTIVE . We evaluated the association between clinical image quality and breast cancer occurrence within 24 months of a negative mammogram. MATERIALS AND METHODS . We identified women with breast cancer who were younger than 40 years old and older and screened from January 1, 1988, through December 31, 1993. We retrospectively assigned Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) asses...

Benefits of screening mammography.

Breast cancer is a leading cause of premature death for women in their 40s, and mammographic screening significantly reduces the risk of death due to breast cancer. The latter was the conclusion of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of screening mammography. The USPSTF concluded, however, that the absolute benefit from routine...

The sea of uncertainty surrounding ductal carcinoma in situ--the price of screening mammography.

Wouldn't it be easier if we lived in a binary world? Everything would be either black or white, yes or no, 1 or 0. And biopsy results would be either normal or cancer. Unfortunately, in the world of cancer, our efforts to detect the disease early have made this a fantasy. We are increasingly faced with the reality of a big gray zone — a broad spectrum of pathologic fi ndings between normal tiss...

AMWA endorses uniform mammography screening.