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The WISDOM Study: breaking the deadlock in the breast cancer screening debate. [PDF]

, 2017
There are few medical issues that have generated as much controversy as screening for breast cancer. In science, controversy often stimulates innovation; however, the intensely divisive debate over mammographic screening has had the opposite effect and ...
Esserman, Laura J, WISDOM Study and Athena Investigators   +1 more
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Questioning the Quantitative Imperative: Decision Aids, Prevention, and the Ethics of Disclosure [PDF]

, 2011
Patients should not always receive hard data about the risks and benefits of a medical intervention. That information should always be available to patients who expressly ask for it, but it should be part of standard disclosure only sometimes, and only ...
Schwartz, Peter H.
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Assessing and Explaining Geographic Variations in Mammography Screening Participation and Breast Cancer Incidence

Frontiers in Oncology, 2019
Investigating geographic variations in mammography screening participation and breast cancer incidence help improve prevention strategies to reduce the burden of breast cancer.
Jonas Czwikla, Jonas Czwikla, Jonas Czwikla, Iris Urbschat, Joachim Kieschke, Frank Schüssler, Ingo Langner, Falk Hoffmann   +7 more
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Prognostic factors and outcomes in women with breast cancer in Slovenia in relation to step-wise implementation of organized screening

PLoS ONE, 2022
Introduction The aim of organized breast cancer screening is early detection and reduction in mortality. Organized screening should promote equal access and reduce socio-economic inequalities.
Sonja Tomšič, Tina Žagar, Ana Mihor, Miran Mlakar, Katarina Lokar, Katja Jarm, Vesna Zadnik   +6 more
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Non-participation in breast screening in Denmark: Sociodemographic determinants

BMC Public Health
Background Internationally, non-participation in breast screening increased with decreasing level of education indicating importance of information campaigns to enhance awareness of screening.
My von Euler-Chelpin, George Napolitano, Elsebeth Lynge, Søren Borstrøm, Ilse Vejborg   +4 more
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Unlocking insights: exploring mammography beliefs among Teshie community mothers – a qualitative exploratory descriptive study

BMJ Open
Background Breast cancer is a global concern, especially for women of African descent, with rising cases in Ghana. While awareness and diagnostic screening have improved, studies in Ghana and many African countries have prioritised breast self ...
Priscilla Yeye Adumoah Attafuah, Evans Appiah Osei, Lauraine Watson-Quartey, Jamilatu B Kappiah, Ronald Odonkor, Hawah Amadu Toure, Nana Semuah Bressey, Collins Sarpong   +7 more
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CAD in mammography: lesion-level versus case-level analysis of the effects of prompts on human decisions [PDF]

, 2008
Object: To understand decision processes in CAD-supported breast screening by analysing how prompts affect readers’ judgements of individual mammographic features (lesions).
Andrey A. Povyakalo, D Gur, E Alberdi, E Alberdi, Eugenio Alberdi, JJ Fenton, LAL Khoo, LJ Skitka, Lorenzo Strigini, M Bazzocchi, N Houssami, Peter Ayton, PM Taylor, R Parasuraman, Rosalind Given-Wilson, SH Taplin, SM Astley, TE Cupples, TW Freer   +18 more
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Long-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive screening mammography: a cohort study with follow-up of 12–14 years in Denmark

BMJ Open, 2023
Objective To compare the long-term psychosocial consequences of mammography screening among women with breast cancer, normal results and false-positive results.Design A matched cohort study with follow-up of 12–14 years.Setting Denmark from 2004 to 2019 ...
Volkert Siersma, John Brandt Brodersen, Emma Grundtvig Gram   +2 more
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Modelling the overdiagnosis of breast cancer due to mammography screening in women aged 40 to 49 in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2012
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, andreproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
AH Olsen, BN Hellquist, C Biesheuvel, CT Brekelmans, D Puliti, E Paci, H Weedon-Fekjaer, HJ de Koning, HP Sinn, KJ Jørgensen, L Tabár, MF Yen, Montserrat Garcia-Closas, Necdet B Gunsoy, Office for National Statistics, Office for National Statistics, PA Carney, R de Gelder, S Moss, S Moss, S Moss, Sue M Moss, SW Duffy, SW Duffy, SW Duffy, SW Duffy, TC Prevost   +26 more
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Cost-effectiveness of screening mammography in a low income country: a Markov simulation analysis

BMC Medical Imaging, 2021
Background Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women. Screening mammography is the only imaging screening study for breast cancer with a proven. mortality benefit.
Segni Kejela
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