Article
Effects of screening for breast cancer on its age-incidence relationships and familial risk.
International journal of cancer - 20 Oct 2005
Hemminki Kari, Bermejo Justo Lorenzo
Abstract excerpt
Mammographic screening programs for breast cancer have been implemented in many countries and opportunistic mammographies are taken as a diagnostic method. The consequences of the wide application of this technology to age-incidence relationships in breast cancer have not been clarified nor is its effect on familial risk estimation. It was assumed that if screening and diagnostic methods bias familial risk, the...
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