Personalized breast cancer screening strategies: A systematic review and quality assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effectiveness of breast cancer screening is still under debate. Our objective was to systematically review studies assessing personalized breast cancer screening strategies based on women's individual risk and to conduct a risk of bias assessment.

Methods

We followed the standard methods of The Cochrane Collaboration and PRISMA declaration and searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE and Clinical Trials databases for studies published in English. The quality of the studies was assessed using the ISPOR-AMCP-NPC Questionnaire and The Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool. Two independent reviewers screened full texts and evaluated the risk of bias.

Results

Out of the 1533 initially retrieved citations, we included 13 studies. Three studies were randomized controlled trials, whi

SUBMITTER: Roman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6913984 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature