title: [Mammotest and breast cancer screening].
abstract: Breast cancer screening programmes have been integrated in a systematic way into the public health policies of numerous countries. Breast cancer is indeed one of the (rare) health issues which answers the criteria necessary to organize a screening on a large scale. The different methods of diagnosis and the results of various strategies (based on randomized controlled trials and meta-analysis) are described and compared. This reveals that the Belgian policy in this matter is and remains founded today: a standardized mammotest every 2 years for all women from 50 to 69.
authors.affiliation: D.M.G.-U.L.B., Bruxelles. michel.roland@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roland
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001530:Belgium / Q000453:epidemiology; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008327:Mammography; D008875:Middle Aged