Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection
Fulfilling the Potential of Cancer Prevention and Early Detection

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2003-05-07

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0309170133

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Cancer ranks second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in the United States, making it a tremendous burden in years of life lost, patient suffering, and economic costs. Fulfilling the Potential for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection reviews the proof that we can dramatically reduce cancer rates. The National Cancer Policy Board, part of the Institute of Medicine, outlines a national strategy to realize the promise of cancer prevention and early detection, including specific and wide-ranging recommendations. Offering a wealth of information and directly addressing major controversies, the book includes: A detailed look at how significantly cancer could be reduced through lifestyle changes, evaluating approaches used to alter eating, smoking, and exercise habits. An analysis of the intuitive notion that screening for cancer leads to improved health outcomes, including a discussion of screening methods, potential risks, and current recommendations. An examination of cancer prevention and control opportunities in primary health care delivery settings, including a review of interventions aimed at improving provider performance. Reviews of professional education and training programs, research trends and opportunities, and federal programs that support cancer prevention and early detection. This in-depth volume will be of interest to policy analysts, cancer and public health specialists, health care administrators and providers, researchers, insurers, medical journalists, and patient advocates.

Saving Women's Lives
Saving Women's Lives

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-03-18

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0309165946

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The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer mortality has decreased steadily since 1989. Yet breast cancer remains a major problem, second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of death from cancer for women. To date, no means to prevent breast cancer has been discovered and experience has shown that treatments are most effective when a cancer is detected early, before it has spread to other tissues. These two facts suggest that the most effective way to continue reducing the death toll from breast cancer is improved early detection and diagnosis. Building on the 2001 report Mammography and Beyond, this new book not only examines ways to improve implementation and use of new and current breast cancer detection technologies but also evaluates the need to develop tools that identify women who would benefit most from early detection screening. Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis encourages more research that integrates the development, validation, and analysis of the types of technologies in clinical practice that promote improved risk identification techniques. In this way, methods and technologies that improve detection and diagnosis can be more effectively developed and implemented.

Breast Cancer Screening
Breast Cancer Screening

Author: Nehmat Houssami

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2016-04-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780128022092

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Breast Cancer Screening: Making Sense of Complex and Evolving Evidence covers broad aspects of breast cancer screening specifically focusing on current evidence, emerging evidence, and issues that will be critical for future breast screening practice such as tailored screening and shared decision-making in breast screening. The scope of the book is relevant to a global audience. This book provides balanced perspectives on this increasingly controversial topic, using scientific evidence to explain the evolution of knowledge relating to breast cancer screening. Breast Cancer Screening covers the key points related to this debate including the context of increasingly complex and conflicting evidence, divergent opinions on the benefits and harms of breast screening, and variability in screening practice and outcomes across settings around the world.

National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Breast Cancer Screening for Women Ages 40-49
National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Breast Cancer Screening for Women Ages 40-49

Author: John Kenneth Gohagan

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Breast cancer screening controversy - Breast cancer screening, women in their forties - What do women want to know?(information) - Screening fundamentals - Study design of randomized controlled clinical trials of breast cancer screening - Periodic screening for breast cancer : the HIP Randomized Controlled Trial (Sam Shapiro) - The Edinburgh Randomized Trial of Breast Cancer Screening - The Canadian National Breast Screening Study : update on breast cancer mortality - Swedish two-county trial : the effects of age, histologic type, and mode of detection on the efficacy of breast cancer screening - The Stockholm mammographic screening trial : risks and benefits in age group 40-49 years. - The Gotheburg Breast Cancer Screening Trial : preliminary results.. - Updated overview of the Swedish Randomized Trials on Breast Cancer Screening with mammography - Reduced breast cancer mortality ... updated results from the Malmo mammographic screening program - Variation in the effectiveness of breast screening by year of follow-up - The Quality and interpretation of mammographic screening trials for women ages 40-49 Markov models - Breast cancer screening outcomes - Radiation risk - The psychosocial consequences of mammography - nonpalpable breast cancer - Incresaes in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

Periodic Screening for Breast Cancer
Periodic Screening for Breast Cancer

Author: Sam Shapiro

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Presents a full account of the HIP project's background, methodology, and final result. On determining whether periodic breast cancer screening with mammography and clinical examination of the breast holds substantial promise for lowering mortality in the female population from breast cancer. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards
Improving Breast Imaging Quality Standards

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-09-27

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0309165113

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Mammography is an important tool for detecting breast cancer at an early stage. When coupled with appropriate treatment, early detection can reduce breast cancer mortality. At the request of Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioned a study to examine the current practice of mammography and breast cancer detection, with a focus on the FDA's oversight via the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), to identify areas in need of improvement. Enacted in 1993, MQSA provides a general framework for ensuring national quality standards in facilities performing screening mammography, requires that each mammography facility be accredited and certified, and mandates that facilities will undergo annual inspections. This book recommends strategies for achieving continued progress in assuring mammography quality, including changes to MQSA regulation, as well as approaches that do not fall within the purview of MQSA. Specifically, this book provides recommendations aimed at improving mammography interpretation; revising MQSA regulations, inspections, and enforcement; ensuring an adequate workforce for breast cancer screening and diagnosis; and improving breast imaging quality beyond mammography.

Radical
Radical

Author: Kate Pickert

Publisher: Little, Brown Spark

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0316470333

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In this "powerful and unflinching page-turner" (New York Times), a healthcare journalist examines the science, history, and culture of breast cancer. As a health-care journalist, Kate Pickert knew the emotional highs and lows of medical treatment well -- but always from a distance, through the stories of her subjects. That is, until she was unexpectedly diagnosed with an aggressive type of breast cancer at the age of 35. As she underwent more than a year of treatment, Pickert realized that the popular understanding of breast care in America bears little resemblance to the experiences of today's patients and the rapidly changing science designed to save their lives. After using her journalistic skills to navigate her own care, Pickert embarked on a quest to understand the cultural, scientific and historical forces shaping the lives of breast-cancer patients in the modern age. Breast cancer is one of history's most prolific killers. Despite billions spent on research and treatments, it remains one of the deadliest diseases facing women today. From the forests of the Pacific Northwest to an operating suite in Los Angeles to the epicenter of pink-ribbon advocacy in Dallas, Pickert reports on the turning points and people responsible for the progress that has been made against breast cancer and documents the challenges of defeating a disease that strikes one in eight American women and has helped shape the country's medical culture. Drawing on interviews with doctors, economists, researchers, advocates and patients, as well as on journal entries and recordings collected over the author's treatment, Radical puts the story of breast cancer into context, and shows how modern treatments represent a long overdue shift in the way doctors approach cancer -- and disease -- itself.