Mammography screening interval and the frequency of interval cancers in a population-based screening
Mammography screening interval and the frequency of interval cancers in a population-based screening
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DOI:
10.1038/bjc.1997.135
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发表时间:
1997-01-01
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Joensuu, H
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作者:
Klemi, PJ;Toikkanen, S;Joensuu, H
In a population-based mammography screening, 129 731 examinations were carried out among 36 000 women aged 40-74 in the city of Turku, Finland, in the period 1987-94. Women older than 50 were screened at 2-year intervals, and those younger than 50 at either 1-year or 3-year intervals, depending on their year of birth. Screen-detected breast cancers numbered 385 and, during the same time period, 154 women were diagnosed with breast cancer outside screening in the same age group in the same city, and 100 interval cancers were detected. Two hundred and fifty (67%) of the screen-detected cancers were of post-surgical stage I compared with 45 (45%) of the interval cancers and 52 (34%) of the cancers found outside screening (P