mammography has been recognized as the best method of screening for breast cancer, for a long time. although the sensitivity of mammography is acceptable, it has limited specificity and a radiologist should be aware of limitations and pitfalls. there are different positive findings in mammography which are descriptors of breast disease including benign lesions or breast cancer. in this talk i w...

Breast cancer is the most common non-skin cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. Before the introduction of widespread mammographic screening in the mid-1980s, the death rate from breast cancer in the US had remained unchanged for more than 4 decades. Since 1990, the death rate has declined by at least 38%. Much of this change is attributed to early ...

background: breast cancer is a life threatening disease affecting women. awareness should be created among women for early detection of breast cancer. nurses should provide information on bse to women population as a part of their profession. the aim of this study was to assess the attitude and practice of nurses in imparting knowledge on bse to female patients. methods: this cross-sectional st...

Background: The Cochrane Collaborative, a respected independent review body, recently published a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of screening mammography in decreasing breast cancer mortality. Based on the results of two controlled trials they judged to be of medium validity, they concluded that screening mammography was unjustified. In contrast, the US Preventive Services Task Force recent...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most common cancer and the second principal cause of cancer death in women as well as the most common cause of death in Iranian women aged 35-55 years. Detection of breast cancer in its early stages is amenable to almost complete cure. Breast cancer screening comprises breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination (CBE) and mammography. The study a...

background: the gail model has been widely used for estimation of absolute risk of breast cancer development. the original model and most of the validation studies have been performed among western populations and controversial results have been reported regarding the applicability of this model in asian populations. our aim was to investigate the performance of this model in iranian women. met...

Good primary care now includes routine screening for breast cancer among appropriate age-groups of women patients. Virtually all expert groups recommend breast cancer screening. During the past several decades, these recommendations have been translated into increasingly higher percentages of women getting breast cancer screening. 1-3 By 1995, a national study found that 70% of women aged 40 ye...

IMPORTANCE Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is increasingly used for breast cancer screening, diagnostic evaluation, and surveillance. However, we lack data on national patterns of breast MRI use in community practice. OBJECTIVE To describe patterns of breast MRI use in US community practice during the period 2005 through 2009. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Observational cohort s...