title: [Comprehensive prophylactic examinations of women for the detection of early forms of breast cancer].
abstract: Under examination were 2699 females over 30 years of age having no complaints of the mammary gland induration. The following diagnostic tests were used: 1) clinical; 2) thermography of mammary glands; 3) mammography in two projections. Breast cancer was revealed in 12 females (in 4.4 per 1,000 persons under examination). The clinical method solely revealed mammary gland cancer in 0.14%, thermography--in 0.28%, mammography-in 0.57%. A two-step examination, when persons suspected of breast pathology being preliminary identified, enabled the recognition of breast cancer in 2.97% (29.7 per 1,000 examined subjects). 41.6 per cent of the detected tumors proved to be lobar carcinoma in situ, 33 per cent--microfoci of scirrhous and solid cancer. The conclusion is drawn on somewhat limited opportunities of thermography as a screening method due to very frequent pseudopositive diagnoses.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D012426:Russia; D014505:Urban Population
vernacular_title: Kompleksnye profilakticheskie obsledovaniia zhenshchin dlia vyiavleniia rannikh form raka molochnoĭ zhelezy.