Breast cancer screening with imaging: recommendations from the Society of Breast Imaging and the ACR on the use of mammography, breast MRI, breast ultrasound, and other technologies for the detection of clinically occult breast cancer.

Screening for breast cancer with mammography has been shown to decrease mortality from breast cancer, and mammography is the mainstay of screening for clinically occult disease. Mammography, however, has well-recognized limitations, and recently, other imaging including ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging have been used as adjunctive screening tools, mainly for women who may be at increased risk for the development of breast cancer. The Society of Breast Imaging and the Breast Imaging Commission of the ACR are issuing these recommendations to provide guidance to patients and clinicians on the use of imaging to screen for breast cancer.

Mammographic screening: international perspective.

The twentieth century saw the introduction of mammography as a diagnostic tool and its refinement as a screening method. It appears guaranteed that women who are well informed will seek mammography screening with high expectations of technical quality and accurate interpretation. More refined knowledge of breast anatomy and pathology will assist radiologists to interpret with high specificity.

Ten years of breast screening in the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia, 1988-97.

Objectives: To evaluate 10 years outcomes of the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia (SMPBC) and determine if breast screening targets were being achieved among women aged 40-80+ years.

Setting: Organised breast screening programme in British Columbia, Canada.

Methods: Rates of participation, abnormal referral, cancer detection, and interval cancer were calculated for asymptomatic women receiving an SMPBC mammography from 1988-97.

Prognosis, treatment, and recurrence of breast cancer for women attending or not attending the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia.

Breast cancer screening programs have been initiated in many countries in the past decade. To determine the impact of the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia (SMPBC), disease and treatment outcomes for women with breast cancer diagnosed in BC between 1989 and 1996 were compared on the basis of attendance at the SMPBC. An SMPBC attender was a women diagnosed with breast cancer within three years of an SMPBC screen, regardless whether the cancer was detected as a result of that screen.

Quality-oriented mass mammography screening.

Purpose: To demonstrate the ability of a mass mammography screening program to provide consistently high-quality mammography screening, while at the same time sustain a large volume of patients to keep the cost of mammography low.

Materials And Methods: A public-funded, mass mammography screening program, begun in 1988, is currently being conducted in five Canadian provinces. For the Screening Mammography Program of British Columbia, complete follow-up data are available for the first 57 months of operation.