Consequences of a national mammography screening program on diagnostic procedures and tumor sizes in breast cancer

Pathology Research and Practice

Volumn 197, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 467-474

  Scheiden, R ^a,b,e   Sand, J ^b   Tanous, A M ^a   Capesius, C ^a,b   Wagener, C ^a   Wagnon, M C ^c   Knolle, U ^a   Faverly, D ^d  

^a National Public Health Laboratory Luxembourg   (Luxembourg)

^b Morphological Tumor Registry   (Luxembourg)

^c LUX   (Belgium)

^d Reference Center for Breast Cancer Detection   (Belgium)

^e Lab Natl de la Santeacute   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Female breast cancer; Fine needle aspirations; Frozen sections; Large core needle biopsies; National screening mammography program; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUXEMBOURG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGIST; TISSUE FIXATION; TISSUE SECTION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0034922450     PISSN: 03440338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00113     Document Type: Article

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