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Breast Cancer
Screening program in Europe deemed a success
February 10th, 2005
According to published research from England, "Europe, despite its division into multiple nations even with a European Union, now enjoys a uniformly high level of cancer detection by virtue of the Europe Against Cancer program, begun in 1986." "The program's aim was reducing cancer mortality by 15% by the year 2000. Its operating arm, the European Breast Cancer Network, compared and reported on the pilot projects in the member states," said N.M. Perry and colleagues, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. "Some early results were poor, with high recall rates (up to 28%); the main cause was poor image quality," the study authors said. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-10)
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