Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Screening Using Mammography

• Published in: Journal of Japan Association of Breast Cancer Screening Vol. 8; no. 2; pp. 115 - 121
• Main Authors: Koga, Sunao, Mori, Hisaharu, Name, Shigeru, Yamasaki, Miki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan Association of Breast Cancer Screening 1999
• Subjects: breast cancer screening; early breast cancer; mammography; women in their forties

Since 1990, we have been carrying out breast cancer screening by clinical examination using mammography in women visiting our human “Dry Dock” Center. For a total of 15, 928 women screened between November 1990 and June 1998, the recall rate for further examination was 7.8%. Forty-three breast cance...