The detection and diagnosis of early occult and minimal breast cancer
| Autor: | H. Stephen Gallager, John E. Martin, D. Lewis Moore, David D. Paulus |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Cancer Research medicine.medical_specialty Neoplasms Radiation-Induced Time Factors Breast cancer mortality Breast Neoplasms Breast cancer medicine Screening programs Humans Mass Screening Medical physics Aged Palpation business.industry History 20th Century Middle Aged medicine.disease Occult United States Oncology Lymphatic Metastasis Female business Mammography |
| Zdroj: | Current Problems in Cancer. 3:1-32 |
| ISSN: | 0147-0272 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0147-0272(79)80007-0 |
| Popis: | This article has attempted to describe the present status of efforts toward routine detection of breast cancer at a stage when it is readily curable and to point out, not only the potentials of screening programs, but also the problems and difficulties that beset them. We believe that efficient, safe screening and accurate early diagnosis are achievable and that trial directed toward this end should not only continue but expand. We see no other avenue that offers as bright a prospect for a meaningful reduction in breast cancer mortality and the monstrous toll--medical, emotional, sociologic and monetary--it exacts. |
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