[Good clinical practice guideline--guidelines of the health care chain cancer of the breast: stage 3 guideline "Early Recognition of Cancer of the Breast in Germany" Lecture: International Cancer of the Breast Symposium on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Dr. med K.-D. Schultz, 27.-29. September 2002 in Marburg].
Breast cancer is the leading death of women with cancer worldwide and the focus of today major concern of gender specific, health care in Germany. Diagnosis of breast cancer at an early stage has a better prognosis and better chance to be cured combined with improved quality of life. Thus quality of health care in early detection of breast cancer should not be focussed on screening-mammography of women at a certain age-group alone anymore. The efficacy and effectiveness of an early detection of breast cancer programme depends on the concomitant quality assuring arrangements of the interdisciplinary diagnostic chain including risk evaluation, clinical examination, technical diagnostic procedures including interventional techniques and histo-pathological analysis in combination with excellent surgical and oncological treatment and follow-up. To establish a national effective, quality assured, interdisciplinary breast cancer early detection programme in Germany a multidisciplinary good clinical practice (GCP) guideline has been developed.
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Klinik für Gynäkologie, gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Onkologie, Philipps Universität, Marburg. albertu@mailer.uni-marburg.de
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care