[A place of outpatient screening in the formation of a current organizational scheme for better radical detection of breast cancer].

The authors consider it necessary to revise the current views of breast cancer in women. In their opinion, excessive consideration of mammography as an independent section of radiation diagnosis does not contribute to better detection of breast cancer. The principle of including mammography into the general traditional section of current radiation diagnosis should be regarded as of paramount importance.

[Outpatient screening and its place in better detection of breast tumors].

The authors state their opinion on this problem by analyzing their 5-year use of their programme specially developed for detection of breast disease, mainly cancer, among females visiting specialized rooms of non-mammological profiles (gastroenterology, endocrinology, rheumatology, pulmonology, neurology, cardiology, hematology, nephrology, etc.) in the consulting polyclinics of regional (territorial) hospitals and large city hospital-polyclinic complexes. In this period, mammographic studies were made in 9169 women included into a breast cancer-risk group.

[Screening diagnosis of breast cancer].

The authors propose their screening program for detection of breast cancer. It includes the entire complex of present-day screening diagnostic methods, starting from an original system for the formation of groups at risk of breast cancer and completed by the direct diagnostic model of detection of the condition, oriented at a differentiated approach to the use of mammographic techniques. The proposed organizational and methodologic screening measures are both economic and diagnostically effective, thus meeting the principal requirements to screening programs.