The incidence of fatal breast cancer measures the increased effectiveness of therapy in women participating in mammography screening.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Women and their health care providers need a reliable answer to this important question: If a woman chooses to participate in regular mammography screening, then how much will this choice improve her chances of avoiding a death from breast cancer compared with women who choose not to participate?

Methods

To answer this question, we used comprehensive registries for population, screening history, breast cancer incidence, and disease-specific death data in a defined population in Dalarna County, Sweden. The annual incidence of breast cancer was calculated along with the annual incidence of breast cancers that were fatal within 10 and within 11 to 20 years of diagnosis among women aged 40 to 69 years who either did or did not participate in mammography screening duri

SUBMITTER: Tabar L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588008 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature