Personality factors and breast cancer risk: a 13-year follow-up.

Consistent scientific evidence on the possible relationship between psychologic variables and breast cancer development is lacking. In 1996, our group first reported on the present prospective, longitudinal study. We found a weak association between a high score on the antiemotionality scale (indicating an absence of emotional behavior or a lack of trust in one's own feelings) and the development of breast cancer.

Importance of comparison of current and prior mammograms in breast cancer screening.

Purpose: To retrospectively determine the influence of comparing current mammograms with prior mammograms on breast cancer detection in screening and to investigate a protocol in which prior mammograms are viewed only when necessary.

Materials And Methods: Institutional review board approval was not required. Participants gave written informed consent.

Effect of soft-copy display supported by CAD on mammography screening performance.

Diagnostic performance and reading speed for conventional mammography film reading is compared to reading digitized mammograms on a dedicated workstation. A series of mammograms judged negative at screening and corresponding priors were collected. Half were diagnosed as cancer at the next screening, or earlier for interval cancers.

Effect of recall rate on earlier screen detection of breast cancers based on the Dutch performance indicators.

Background: The recall rate (i.e., the rate at which mammographically screened women are recalled for additional assessment) in the Dutch breast screening program (0.

Use of prior mammograms in the classification of benign and malignant masses.

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of using prior mammograms for classification of benign and malignant masses. Five radiologists and one resident classified mass lesions in 198 mammograms obtained from a population-based screening program. Cases were interpreted twice, once without and once with comparison of previous mammograms, in a sequential reading order using soft copy image display.

Independent double reading of screening mammograms in The Netherlands: effect of arbitration following reader disagreements.

Purpose: To prospectively determine the value of arbitration by a panel of radiologists when two radiologists performing independent readings of screening mammograms do not reach a consensus about referral.

Materials And Methods: The study population consisted of women who participated in the Dutch Nationwide Breast Cancer Screening Program, in which biennial screening is offered to women aged 50-75 years. An arbitration panel of three radiologists assessed those screening mammograms for which two screening radiologists did not reach a consensus about referral necessity.

Initiation of population-based mammography screening in Dutch municipalities and effect on breast-cancer mortality: a systematic review.

Background: More than a decade ago, a mammography screening programme for women aged 50-69 years was initiated in the Netherlands. Our aim was to assess the effect of this programme on breast-cancer mortality rates.

Methods: We examined data for 27948 women who died of breast-cancer aged 55-74 years between 1980 and 1999 (30560 cases until 2001).

Computer-aided detection versus independent double reading of masses on mammograms.

Purpose: To evaluate the use of a computer-aided detection (CAD) system (designed for mammographic mass detection) to help improve mass interpretation and to compare CAD results with independent double-reading results.

Materials And Methods: Screening mammograms from 500 cases were collected; 125 of these cases were screening-detected cancers, and 125 were interval cancers. Previously obtained screening mammograms (ie, prior mammograms) were available in all cases.