title: Breast cancer screening. Preliminary report of 207 biopsies performed in 4, 128 volunteer screenees.
abstract: Thirty-six carcinomas of the breast were pathologically verified in the first 207 biopsies performed to date on women attending the Breast Cancer Detection Center at The University of Cincinnati. Fifty-three percent of these have been minimal breast cancer, 14 being totally in situ. This is compared with a similar number of breast biopsies performed prior to the opening of the Breast Cancer Project. In the latter group of cases there were 45 carcinomas  proven, only 1 of which was in situ, 24 of which were invasive Stage I and 20 Stage II or higher. In addition, 65 biopsies demonstrated proliferative disease of varying degrees of severity as compared to a total of 13 in the non screened population.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D002278:Carcinoma in Situ / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination