13 Results for mammography screening

Are breast cancer screening programs justified?

…incentive but the government does have a mammography uptake target of 70% of eligible patients by 2020. (Currently, mammography screening participation rates in Ontario and Alberta are 60% and 56%,…

Interpreting randomized trial evidence around mammography

…mammographic screening One criticism is that some women randomized to mammography screening decided not to be screened. Conversely, some women randomized to no screening had a mammogram. In the epidemiology…

Presenting the benefits of mammography

…a mammography screening program in terms of the number of deaths from breast cancer prevented. At the same time, women contemplating mammography screening for breast cancer may be interested in…

Did mammography save her life?

…of screening mammography with the harms of unnecessary treatment is important when considering screening mammography “I am so thankful that my breast cancer was detected early by screening. Because the…

Weighing the harms and benefits of mammography

…Force of under-estimating the benefits of screening mammography because they claim newer mammography technology will detect more treatable cancers. Others have suggested that the benefits of screening mammography were exaggerated…

The mammography controversy

…cured. It may seem obvious that breast cancer screening works – after all, many breast cancer survivors have had their cancers detected on routine screening mammography. But what if most…

Arithmetic Operations: Breast Cancer Screening Choices and Anticoagulation Bridging

…The papers 1. Breast cancer screening choices: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60123-4/abstract 2. Anticoagulation bridging: http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1501035 3. Cancer Care Ontario breast cancer screening: https://www.cancercare.on.ca/cms/One.aspx?portalId=1377&pageId=9430 4. Healthy Debate breast cancer screening program justification: http://healthydebate.ca/2015/04/topic/breast-cancer-screening-justified Good…

Screening mammography

screening is early detection, not prevention. At a seminar I attended on how to persuade patients to go for screening mammograms, a physician asked, “What if the money spent on…

A patient asks: does my ancestry put me at higher risk of breast cancer?

…undergo a special type of screening that includes mammography but also magnetic resonance imaging, which is far more sensitive at finding tumors. You could also be offered a drug such…

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