Informed consent for mammography screening: modelling the risks and benefits for American women
β Scribed by Tom Marshall
- Book ID
- 110882312
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1369-6513
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To assess the information given to women during a maternal serum screening (MSS) programme, we prospectively applied a questionnaire to 504 pregnant women attending for amniocentesis after a screen-positive result. The survey based on 200 usable questionnaires (39β’7 per cent of our study population)
## Abstract ## BACKGROUND The authors compared the performance of screening mammography versus magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in women at genetically high risk for breast cancer. ## METHODS The authors conducted an international prospective study of screening mammography and MRI in asymptomati
Mammographic screening has resulted in β€44% reduction in breast cancer mortality. Understanding what influences and motivates women to obtain mammograms is critical to achieving the highest compliance rate