Mammographic screening docs not reduce breast cancer mortality;Hälsokontroller med mammografi minskar inte dödlighet i bröstcancer

Lakartidningen

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 904-913

  Sjönell, Göran ^a,c   Ståhle, Lars ^b  

^a Kvartersakuten Matteus   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Kvartersakuten Matteus   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0033599170     PISSN: 00237205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Allmänna råd. Mammografiscreening-hälsokontroll för tidig upptäckt av cancer. Stockholm: Socialstyrelsen, 1986. SoS rapport 1986: 3.
2. Andersson I, Aspegren U, Janzon L, Landberg T, Lindholm K, Linell F et al. Mammografic screening and mortality from breast cancer: the Malmö mammografic screening trial. BMJ 1988; 297: 943-8.
3. Lenner P, Jonsson H. Excess mortality from breast cancer in relation to mammography screening in northern Sweden. J Med Screen 1997; 4: 6-9.
4. Frisell J, Eklund G, Hellström L, Lidbrink E, Rutqvist LE, Somell A. Randomized study of mammography screening-preliminary report on the mortality in the Stockholm trial. Breast Cancer Res Treat 1991; 18: 49-56.
5. Shapiro S, Strax P, Venet L. Periodic breast cancer screening in reducing mortality from breast cancer. JAMA 1971; 215: 1777-85.
6. Nyström L, Rutqvist LE, Wall S, Lindgren A, Lindqvist M, Ryden S et al. Breast cancer screening with mammography: overview of Swedish randomised trials. Lancet 1993; 341: 973-8
7. Skrabanek P. Cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening. Int J Technol Assess Health Care 1991; 7: 633-5.
8. Wright CJ, Mueller CB. Screening, mammography and public health: the need for perspective. Lancet 1995; 346: 29-32.
9. Nyström L, Larsson LG, Rutqvist LE, Lindgren A, Lindqvist M, Ryden S et al. Determination of cause of death among breast cancer cases in the Swedish randomized mammography screening trials. Acta Oncologica 1995; 84: 145-52.
10. Tabár L, Fagerberg G, Duffy SW, Day NE. The Swedish two-county trial of mammografic screening for breast cancer: recent results and calculation of benefit. J Epidemiol Community Health 1989; 43: 107-17.
11. Elmore JG, Barton MB, Moceri VM, Polk S, Arena PJ, Fletcher SW. Ten false positive screening mammograms and clinical examinations. N Engl J Med 1998; 338: 1089-96.
12. Lidbrink E, Elfving J, Frisell J, Jonsson E. Neglected aspects of false positive findings of mammography in breast cancer screening: analysis of false positive cases from the Stockholm trial. BMJ 1996; 312: 273-6.
13. Hälsoundersökning med mammografi. Stockholm: Socialstyrelsen, 1998. SoS rapport 1998: 17.
14. Blanks RJ, Moss SM. Monitoring the performance of breast screening programmes allowing for geographical variation in breast cancer. J Med Screen 1996; 3: 82-4
15. Prior P, Woodman CBJ, Wilson S, Threlfall AG. Reliability of underlying incidence rates for estimating the effect and efficiency of screening for breast cancer. J Med Screen 1996; 3: 119-22.
16. Garne JP, Aspegren K, Balldin G, Ranstam J. Increasing incidence and declining mortality from breast carcinoma. Cancer 1997; 79: 69-74
17. Snedecor GW, Cochran WG. Statistical Methods, eight edition. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1989.
18. Skrabanek P, McCormick J. Follies & Fallacies in Medicine. Glasgow, Scotland: Tarrgon Press, 1989: 11-25.
19. Weil JG, Hawker JI. Positive findings of mammography may lead to suicide [letter]. BMJ 1997; 314: 754.
20. Sachs L. Is there a pathology of prevention? The implications of visualizing the invisible in screening programs. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 1995; 19: 503-25.