Early Breast Cancer: From Screening to Multidisciplinary Management {purestevil}release

Early Breast Cancer: From Screening to Multidisciplinary Management, 2nd Edition





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Author(s) : Guidubaldo Querci della Rovere

Publisher : Informa HealthCare

Date : 2005

Pages : 504

Format : PDF

ISBN-10 : 1841843849

ISBN-13 : 978-1841843841







From The New England Journal of Medicine

Since the 1960s, screening for breast cancer by mammography has been the subject of a number of controlled trials. These studies showed that, among 45-to-64-year-old women, regular mammography was associated with a 30 percent decrease in mortality due to breast cancer. A large tumor with high-grade histologic features and lymph-node metastases are associated with a poor prognosis. Mammographic screening can detect small tumors with low-grade histologic patterns that have not spread to the lymph nodes -- all features of a good prognosis.