Low-cost mass screening as a means of reducing overall mortality from breast cancer.
Mammography is a screening method that has been proven effective and could significantly reduce the overall mortality from breast cancer if it were more widely applied. The challenge to radiology is to provide sufficient competent personnel and adequate facilities such that reproducibly optimal screening mammography, accurately interpreted at the lowest possible cost, is made widely available.
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Department of Radiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27514.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003363:Cost Control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000191:economics*; D015996:Survival Rate