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INTRODUCTION
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resonance imaging, breast examination by clinicians, and breast self-examination by individual women. We also review published data from randomized, controlled trials, popula- tion studies, and meta-analyses regarding the effects of screening programs on mortality and their potential harms, including false positive and...
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The goal of breast cancer screening is early detection of disease, to be followed by appropriate treatment. Screening tests differ from diagnostic tests insofar as screening iden- tifies subgroups of people who have a high probability of
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asymptomatic disease, while diagnostic tests are obtained in symptomatic patients. A positive screening result in an individual rarely provides direct evidence of disease; screen- ing tests must be followed by diagnostic tests to determine whether disease is truly present.
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Disease Requirements
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First, the disease must be serious, with significant morbid- ity or mortality. Second, an effective therapy for the disease must be available if it is detected as screening would obvi- ously have no value if subsequent treatment would not be beneficial. Third, the natural history of the disease must be understood clear...
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Screening Test Requirements and Characteristics
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It is critical to understand the characteristics of a given screening test, as well as the interplay of its characteristics with those of the population screened and the clinicians who perform and interpret the test. We present a standard 2  2 table (Table 10-1) comparing the results of screening tests with the diseas...
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A positive test result for a person who does not have the disease assessed by a test is called a false positive result while a negative result for a person who actually has the disease is called a false negative result.
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Sensitivity refers to the ability of a screening test to detect a disease when it is present and is calculated as a / (a + c).
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Specificity refers to the ability of a screening test to indi- cate the absence of disease when no disease is present and is calculated as d / (b + d). If a test is not specific, it will falsely indicate the presence of disease in some people who do not have the disease; they appear in cell b.
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Health Care System Requirements
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A screening program divides results into positives and negatives. Follow-up within a health care system must be available for everyone who has a positive result to confirm or rule out the presence of disease. Some follow-up test- ing can be expensive, time-consuming, and painful; it may even entail a degree of risk for...
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Health Care System Requirements
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Before screening is undertaken, treatment should be available, accessible, and acceptable to people with disease. If a country’s resources are too limited to provide treatment in an equitable manner, or if no effective treatment for a given disease is available, it makes no sense, either ethically or in terms of cost-e...
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Screen-Film Mammography
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Screen-film mammography (SFM) has historically been the standard modality used for breast cancer screening, and the technology studied in all major randomized controlled tri- als reporting mortality benefit from screening. SFM serves as both image receptor and display medium, thus, requir- ing images to be processed mu...
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Digital Mammography
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Standard 2  2 Table Comparing Test Results and Disease Status of Subjects Tested, along with Formulas to Measure Test Characteristics
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TEST RESULT
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Digital Mammography
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Positive Negative
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Cells:
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b = subjects with false positive test results
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c = subjects with false negative test results
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d = subjects with true negative test results
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a + b = all subjects with positive test results
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c + d = all subjects with negative test results
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b + d = all subjects without disease
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a / (a + c) = sensitivity
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b / (b + d) = false positive error rate (alpha error rate, type I rate)
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a / (a + b) = positive predictive value
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[a / (a + c)] / [b / (b + d)] = (a / b) / [(a + c) / (b + d)] = likelihood ratio positive (LR+) [c / (a + c)] / [d / (b + d)] = (c / d) / [(a + c) / (b + d)] = likelihood ratio negative (LR–) (a + c) / (a + b + c + d) = prevalence
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Digital Mammography
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Adapted from Jekel JF, Katz DL, Elmore JG. Epidemiology, biostatistics, and preventive medicine. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 2001.
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Computer-Aided Detection
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Computer-aided detection (CAD) has been found effec- tive for improving the detection of malignancy when it is used in conjunction with both SFM and FFDM (11–13). CAD was initially developed to help radiologists identify small tumors that might otherwise be overlooked, and has been shown to detect 84% to 94% of small m...
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Ultrasound
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Ultrasound serves as a critical adjunct diagnostic modality after abnormalities are noted during mammographic screen- ing, and is increasingly used as a primary diagnostic modal- ity for evaluating focal breast symptoms in women younger than age 40 (18,19). The use of ultrasound to screen asymp- tomatic women is also r...
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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the BRCA1 mutation has been shown to be cost-effective, requiring $55,420 per year of life gained (after adjustment for quality of life) (32).
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Insufficient data are available to assess the efficacy of annual MRI screening for women who have either personal histories of breast cancer, previous diagnoses of high-risk breast lesions (e.g., atypical ductal hyperplasia or lobular carcinoma in situ), or extremely dense breasts (29). Because the specificity of scree...
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Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
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While the sensitivity of FFDM is comparable to that of SFM, FFDM suffers from a masking effect caused by fibroglandu- lar tissue lying directly above and below tumors in two- dimensional images. The masking problem can be partially overcome by digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). This new technology, which has received ...
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Digital Breast Tomosynthesis
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Initial studies comparing DBT to FFDM demonstrated comparable sensitivity and specificity for detecting cancer (38–41). By eliminating the masking problem from screening mammography, adjunct DBT has been reported to produce a 30% to 40% reduction in call-back rates compared to FFDM alone (40–42). Because about 10% of U...
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Breast Self-Examination
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Monthly breast self-examination (BSE) is frequently encour- aged, but evidence for its effectiveness is weak (49,50). Research has shown that teaching BSE is not associated with reduced breast cancer mortality. One RCT randomly assigned female workers in Shanghai factories either to an intervention group that received ...
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Breast Self-Examination
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Case-control studies, nonrandomized trials, and cohort studies on the effectiveness of BSE have returned mixed results, which are difficult to interpret because of possible selection and recall bias. In the U.K. Trial of Early Detection of Breast Cancer, more than 63,500 women aged 45 to 64 years were invited to educat...
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It is difficult to establish the value of a community-based screening program unless an RCT is conducted, as RCTs are less prone to bias than other types of study designs. An improvement in survival among women who have under- gone breast cancer screening is often taken to imply that the test saves lives. However, asso...
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Summary of RCTs
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The first RCT, the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP), was met with great enthusiasm (45,66). In this trial conducted from 1963 to 1966, women aged 40 to 64 years at entry were randomized to screening versus no screen- ing. While there were slight imbalances in the distribution of women between assigned ar...
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the case leading to contamination of the control groups in other subsequent RCTs. However, it is unclear whether CBE was performed with the same frequency in the two study arms. The follow-up duration for this study was 18 years with a relative risk of breast cancer death of 0.71 at 10 years, and at 0.77 at 15 years. O...
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Overview of Individual RCTs
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The Malmo, Sweden study, which began in 1976, invited women aged 45 to 69 years for mammography screening (69,70). This trial had 21,088 women in the intervention and 21,195 women in the control group, with 74% of women invited to screen attending their first screen, and 70% attend- ing rounds 2 to 5. The intervention ...
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geographic units designed to be heterogeneous with regards to urban versus rural, population size, and socio- economic factors. Women with preexisting breast cancer were excluded from both groups. This trial enrolled approx- imately 80,000 women to screening and just over 39,000 women in the control group from Ostergot...
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Overview of Individual RCTs
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The Edinburgh (U.K.) Study, which commenced in 1976, enrolled women aged 45 to 64 years from 87 general prac- tices (77). Patients were randomized by clustering based on physician practices. Some randomization assignments were changed after the study began and there was inconsistent recruitment of women within practice...
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Overview of Individual RCTs
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The Canada National Breast Cancer Screening Study-1 (NBSS-1), which began in 1980, enrolled women aged 40 to 49 years who volunteered to participate (57). The sample size was 25,214 in the intervention group and 25,216 in the control group. The intervention consisted of annual two- view screening mammography and CBE fo...
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also taking adjuvant hormone and chemotherapy following breast cancer therapy.
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The Canada National Breast Cancer Screening Study-2 (NBSS-2), which also began in 1980, enrolled women 50 to 59 years of age who volunteered to participate (46). The sample size was 19,711 in the screened group and 19,694 in the control group with the intervention being annual two-view screening mammography and CBE. Th...
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1981, enrolled women aged 40 to 64 years (79). Patients were randomized based on the birth date; specifically, by day of month. There were two sub-trials with a significant imbal- ance in the second with approximately 500 more women in the screened group than the control group. The sample size declined from approximate...
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0.80 (0.53–1.22). The follow-up duration was 8 years and the cause of death was obtained by linking to the Swedish Cause of Death Registry. Some concerns have been raised about the randomization of this study, patient exclusions, and the delay in control group mammograms. Inclusion of these data in the Swedish meta-ana...
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Overview of Individual RCTs
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The Gothenburg, Sweden Trial, which began in 1982, invited women aged 39 to 59 years old (63,80). The random- ization method was complex, with women clustered ran- domly by their day of birth within their birth year for the older group (50 to 59 years old) and by individual for the younger group (39 to 49 years old). T...
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The AGE Trial enrolled women aged 39 to 41 years from 1991 to 1997, and included 160,921 women (65). Women were randomized to screening with annual two-view mam- mography until age 48, or usual care for the control group. Patients were randomized based on lists of general practi- tioners in geographically defined areas...
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Meta-analyses of the RCTs have been published by different authors using varying analytic methods, with some authors excluding specific trials due to concerns about quality of the
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A meta-analysis of RCTs conducted for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in 2009, shown in Table 10-2, found that the number needed to invite to screen for 10 years to avoid or delay one death from breast cancer was 1,904 for women in their 40s, 1,339 for women in their 50s and 377 for women in their 60s (81). The...
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*HIP 40-64yrs (1963)
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**Malmo 45-70yrs (1976)
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*Kopparberg 40-74yrs (1977)
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*Ostergotland 40-74yrs (1977)
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*Edinburgh 45-64yrs (1978)
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**Canada_a 40-49yrs (1980)
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Stockholm 40-64yrs (1981)
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Goteborg 39-59yrs (1982) UK Age 39-41yrs (1991)
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
60261
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0.3
0.2
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
25941
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668
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
160840
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669
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
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670
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.809 (0.610, 1.072)
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671
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.583 (0.450, 0.756)
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672
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.758 (0.606, 0.949)
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673
Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.884 (0.695, 1.125)
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
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0.546 (0.313, 0.951)
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.830 (0.661, 1.043)
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
0.809 (0.742, 0.883)
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
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Breast Cancer Screening
RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS OF SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY
Meta-Analyses and Reviews of RCT Data
nan nan
FIGURE 10-2 Example results of a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials of breast cancer screening. (From Glasziou P, Houssami N. The evidence base for breast cancer screening. Prev Med 2011;53(3).)
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Breast Cancer Screening
COMMENTS ON OTHER BENEFITS
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OF SCREENING
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Positive Results and Additional Interventions
nan nan
Clinicians face the challenge of minimizing the number of women who are unnecessarily called back for diagnostic follow-up after a screening exam while maximizing the likeli- hood of detecting all potentially lethal cancers. This situa- tion can be compared to the performance of a home smoke detector—you don’t want an ...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Positive Results and Additional Interventions
nan nan
Most women who are screened for breast cancer are free of disease. In the United States, approximately one in 10 women who are screened with mammography receive false positive results and are recalled for additional testing, even though they do not have breast cancer (90,91). The availability of prior test results for ...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Positive Results and Additional Interventions
nan nan
Most data on false positive results in breast cancer screening refer to rates per mammogram instead of rates per woman over the lifespan. This approach ignores the fact that many women undergo screening over a period of decades, and thus could receive 10, 20, or more exams dur- ing their lives. A retrospective study pu...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Positive Results and Additional Interventions
nan nan
while the cumulative risk after 10 CBEs was only 22.3% (95% CI, 19.2–27.5). False positive results among study participants led to 870 outpatient appointments, 539 diagnostic mammo- grams, 186 ultrasound examinations, and 188 biopsies. In one patient, a false positive mammogram prompted a biopsy that resulted in cellul...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Positive Results and Additional Interventions
nan nan
A subsequent study that modeled data from the same cohort of women found that the likelihood of a false posi- tive mammogram varied widely based on characteristics of the women screened, the screening modality used, and the radiologist who interpreted the exam (94). The cumulative risk of receiving at least one false p...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
False Negative Results and False Sense of Security
nan nan
by the radiologist or clinician, or because no lesion was vis- ible or palpable on examination. For example, if screening mammography has a sensitivity of 80%, then 20% of mammo- grams of women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer within 1 year will be interpreted as negative. These women, as well as their primary ...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
nan nan
FIGURE 10-3 A woman’s estimated risk of having at least one false positive screening mammogram, according to the total number of screening mammograms performed. NOTE: Numbers in parentheses denote numbers of women with at least that many mammograms. I bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. (From Elmore JG, Barton MB, ...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
nan nan
et al. Ten-year risk of false positive screening mammograms and clinical breast examina- tions. N Engl J Med 1998;338(16):1089–1096.)
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
nan nan
(2227) (2073) (1843) (1491) (1062)
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
nan nan
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694
Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Radiation Exposure
nan nan
(23)
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695
Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Discomfort, Anxiety, and Distress
nan nan
Compression of the breasts is required during mammogra- phy in order to create uniform breast density, improve image resolution, and reduce radiation dose. A systematic review of studies examining physical pain and discomfort associated with mammography demonstrates that while most women experience some physical discom...
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Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Discomfort, Anxiety, and Distress
nan nan
In general, women do not react well to hearing that their screening mammogram is “abnormal” and that they might have breast cancer. In such situations, women typi- cally experience a heightened sense of their risk of cancer. Further, when media campaigns publicize that “one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast ...
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697
Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Discomfort, Anxiety, and Distress
nan nan
(104). One survey of women 3 months after screening mam- mography found that about one-quarter of those who initially received an abnormal result were still experiencing worry that affected their mood or functioning, even though subsequent testing had already ruled out a cancer diagnosis (105). Such worry and anxiety m...
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0.098
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2
698
Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Overdiagnosis
nan nan
Overdiagnosis of breast cancer refers to the diagnosis of a neoplasm that would never become clinically apparent with- out screening before a patient’s death from other causes (107). Because cancers that will progress cannot be distinguished with certainty from those that will not, any tumor identified by screening is ...
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0.095
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0.06
0.04
0.02
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0.095
1
699
Breast Cancer Screening
POTENTIAL HARMS OF SCREENING
Overdiagnosis
nan nan
radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapy. In some cases this regimen might constitute overtreatment because it confers no benefit unless the tumor will actually progress.
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