title: Utilization of diagnostic techniques for cancer of the breast - early diagnosis.
abstract: Early diagnosis of breast cancer is the only method with proven potential for lowering the death rate from the disease. Early diagnosis means, in a practical way, detection of preclinical cancer - finding the cancer before it would ordinarily be detected in the normal course of events. This involves mass screening of apparently well women.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods; D008403:Mass Screening; D009518:New York; D010808:Physical Examination; D013817:Thermography; D013997:Time Factors