Are breast cancer screening programmes increasing rates of mastectomy? Observational study.
Unit of Epidemiology, Centre for the Study and Prevention of Cancer CSPO, Via di S Salvi 12, 50135 Florence, Italy. Epid1@cspo.it
Eugenio
E
Paci
Stephen W
SW
Duffy
Daniela
D
Giorgi
Marco
M
Zappa
Emanuele
E
Crocetti
Vania
V
Vezzosi
Simonetta
S
Bianchi
Luigi
L
Cataliotti
Marco Rosselli
MR
del Turco
D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007558:Italy / Q000453:epidemiology; D008327:Mammography; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008408:Mastectomy / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015409:Mastectomy, Radical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged