Breast screen expansion criticised
THE expansion of free breast cancer screening to Australian women aged up to 74 could prompt a rise in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, an expert believes.
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Mammography
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Free breast screens may lead to more overdiagnosis: expert
THE expansion of free breast cancer screening to Australian women aged up to 74 could prompt a rise in overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment, an expert believes.
Confine breast MRI screen to high-risk women: expert
MRI screening of women at high risk of breast cancer identifies a small number of additional cancers but leads to a substantial number of false positive recalls, Melbourne research shows.
Mammography halves risk of breast cancer mortality
WOMEN who undergo screening mammography halve their risk of dying from breast cancer, according to the largest study of its kind in Australia.
Promotion of 3D breast imaging queried by experts
RADIOLOGISTS have queried the promotion of a 3D screening and diagnostic tool for breast cancer detection now available at four sites in Australia.
Mammography detection gives better survival rate
WOMEN aged in their 40s whose breast cancer is detected by mammography have better survival rates and undergo less invasive treatment than those with physician-detected tumours, a study shows.
Screening tests come under scrutiny
CONCERN about overdiagnosis due to screening has spread from professional journals to lay books and newspapers and is a welcome development, say US experts in preventive health.
Expert slams anti-breast screening book
A LEADING Australian breast cancer surgeon has hit out at a European research organisation that is ramping up its opposition to mammography screening.
Experts oppose anti-screening research
MORE than 40 breast cancer screening experts including five Australians have denounced researchers involved with an “anti-screening” campaign that has links to the Cochrane Collaboration.
Breast screening not linked to lower mortality
RECENT reductions in breast cancer mortality are likely due to improved medical management rather than screening programs, experts in preventive health say after an international study. Researchers from France, the UK and Norway investigated the impact of mammography programs by comparing trends in breast cancer mortality among pairs of similar countries where one introduced mammographic screening 10–15 years before the other one. A reduction in breast cancer mortality would be expected to manifest sooner in countries with earlier screening programs, but this was not borne out by the study, they said. ...
Claim that breast screening is ineffective rejected
A RECENT study suggesting mammography screening has not reduced breast cancer mortality in Denmark has been dismissed as irrelevant by an Australian expert. The study, which was widely reported in the general media, found that breast cancer mortality in regions of Denmark without screening declined at twice the rate of areas that offered screening (2% per year vs 1% per year) in women aged 55 to 74 years. “We were unable to find an effect of the Danish screening program on breast cancer mortality,” the researchers said. However, Australian researcher Professor David Roder, a member of ...