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- Title
The value of breast screening in women less than fifty years of age.
- Authors
Letton, A. Hamblin; Wilson, John P.; Mason, Edward M.; Letton, A H; Wilson, J P; Mason, E M
- Abstract
In the four years our Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project has been receiving patients, 5,810 women under the age of fifty have been examined. Our findings definitely indicate screening of asymptomatic women by xeromammography is of advantage in this group whose greatest cause of death is cancer of the breast; 71.8% of their cancers were found by xeromammography. Of these 43.8% had in situ cancer and only 12.5% of those cancers found had axillary spread. This group should have a five-year cure rate of 87.1% rather than 63% as is the experience of unscreened women. The absorbed rads averaged 0.4632 to each breast per year. At the end of five years this would cause an estimated increase in risk from 7% to 7.162%. To increase survival rate by 24.1% against a theoretical increased risk of 0.16% is definitely worthwhile.
- Publication
Cancer (0008543X), 1977, Vol 40, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0008-543X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/1097-0142(197707)40:1<1::AID-CNCR2820400102>3.0.CO;2-#