Minority report - False negative breast assessment in women recalled for suspicious screening mammography: Imaging and pathological features, and associated delay in diagnosis

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-43

  Ciatto, S ^a   Houssami, N ^b   Ambrogetti, D ^a   Bonardi, R ^a   Collini, G ^a   Del Turco, M Rosselli ^a  

^a CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION INSTITUTE ISPO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer screening; Delay in diagnosis; False negative assessment; Mammography; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548014080     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-006-9425-3     Document Type: Article

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