title: Breast cancer: 1. Screening and early management.
abstract: A 53-year-old woman presented to her physician one month after she had noticed an area of "thickening" in the upper outer quadrant of her right breast. The patient had had her last menstrual period two years earlier. She had never had a mammogram. A mammogram was performed. It showed an area of clustered microcalcifications suggestive of cancer in the area of the palpable abnormality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Oncology, University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, Madison.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Stewart
mesh_terms: D000359:Aftercare; D000465:Algorithms; D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D016504:Breast Self-Examination; D017024:Chemotherapy, Adjuvant; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental; D008875:Middle Aged