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Breast Cancer Screening
Breast cancer survival is linked more to early diagnosis than to differential treatment
February 16th, 2006
Breast cancer survival benefit is linked more to early diagnosis rather than differential treatment. "Italian population-based breast cancer screening programs with 2-year, high-quality mammography started in the cities of Florence and Turin in the early 1990s," declared researchers from the Center for Study and Prevention of Cancer in Florence. "Breast cancer cases from the local Tumor Registry were classified by method of detection and tumor characteristics (size, nodal-status and grade). Follow-up was at December 2001." According to E. Paci and colleagues, "In total, 4444 breast cancer cases were analyzed. The Hazard Ratio comparing before and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-16)
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