The Impact of Breast Cancer Screening on Population Health
Year: 2013
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Breast cancer is an important public health problem with an estimated \nnumber of 1.38 million breast cancer cases and 458,000 deaths from \nthe disease yearly worldwide. Randomized trials have shown that \nmammography screening significantly reduces breast cancer mortality. \nBesides the benefits in terms of lives saved, mammography screening is, \nhowever, also associated with harms, such as false-positive test results \nand overdiagnosis. This thesis describes the impact of breast cancer \nscreening in the population and compares the effects to the effects of \nother interventions. We found that mammography screening has had a \nsubstantial impact on breast cancer mortality in the U.S. and is projected \nto continue to do so in the future. Screening women biennially from age \n50 to 74 years leads to a favorable balance between benefits and harms. \nMore intensive screening (either extending the age ranges or increasing \nthe screening
Author: Nicolien van Ravesteyn
Language: English
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2168131457