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Computer aided detection (CAD) during mammography is associated with decreased specificity but not with improvement in the detection rate or prognostic characteristics of invasive breast cancer.JUL 27, 2011

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Estimates of overdiagnosis of invasive breast cancer associated with screening mammography in Australia are between 30-42%.FEB 01, 2010

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Mammography screenings do not play a direct part in the reductions in breast cancer mortality observed in European countries from 1989-2006. .JAN 01, 2011

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Meta-analysis: the introduction of breast cancer screening might have caused net harm for up to 10 years after the start of screening.JAN 01, 2011

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Overdiagnosis of breast cancer via mammography is extraordinarily common.NOV 21, 2012

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Low-dose radiation increases breast cancer risk among high-risk women.NOV 01, 2010

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14 years of mammography screening in Norway indicate that all increase in the incidence of breast cancer is due to over-diagnosis: findings of tumours that in the absence of screening would never have given rise to clinical illness.FEB 21, 2012

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Breast cancer screening was not associated with a reduction in the incidence of advanced cancer.JAN 09, 2017

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Cumulative probability of false-positive recall or biopsy recommendation after 10 years of screening mammography is at least 50%.OCT 17, 2011

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Despite increased early detection of breast cancer, mortality rose from 2007 to 2008 in the Nethelands for the first time since 1995.JAN 01, 2010

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Despite increases in breast cancer screening in the US (1990-1998), the rate of diagnosis of early-stage breast cancers has not resulted in a reduction in late-stage breast cancers.JUN 01, 2004

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Digital mammography is associated with overtreatment.MAR 01, 2011

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Fat necrosis following post-lumpectomy irradiation may complicate clinical imaging results and result in additional diagnostic procedures including biopsy.OCT 01, 2010

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In comparison with the UK the US has far higher recall rates, despite the increased frequency of routine mammography screenings (18 months USA; 36 months in the UK).JAN 01, 2005

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Invasive breast cancer incidence is 57% higher in women undergoing mammography screening, indicating the possibility that left undiagnosed and untreated some invasive breast cancers spontaneously regress (or, that mammography causes invasive cancer)NOV 24, 2008

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Long-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive screening mammography.FEB 28, 2013

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Mammographic screening induces DNA damage in human mammary cells, which is more prominent in high risk patients.JUL 29, 2011

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Mortality statistics do not show an effect of mammographic screening on population-based breast cancer mortality in England.MAY 31, 2013

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Reducing mammography screening to once every two years versus annually achieves most of the benefit and with less harm.NOV 17, 2009

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Reducing mammography screening to once every two years versus annually does not increase advanced breast cancer rates.JUL 22, 2003

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Screening this postmenopausal age group for a decade reduced breast cancer deaths by a "modest" 10 percent, which translates to one life saved per 2,500 women who got the breast X-rays.SEP 23, 2010

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The dramatic increase in detection of early-stage tumors (1943-2002 in Connecticut) have not translated into major declines in late-stage disease and mortality, suggesting that many mammography-derived early-stage lesions may never progress to late-stageOCT 01, 2006

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The estimated benefits of mammography screening may depend entirely on study design.NOV 01, 2005

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The estimated risk of a false positive recall after 10 screening mammographs is estimated to be 63%.MAR 31, 2010

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The initiation of breast cancer screening in women 50-69 in Denmark from 1991-1993 corresponded to an increase in breast cancer incidence (where overdiagnosis was ruled out).MAY 01, 2006

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The natural history of breast cancers detected in the Swedish mammography screening programme indicate that many screen-detected invasive breast cancers spontaneously regress.NOV 01, 2011

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There is indication that annual two-view mammographic screening before age 40 years would result in a net increase in breast cancer deaths due to radiation-induced tumorigenesis.SEP 05, 2005

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Women aged 66 to 89 years who undergo biennial screening mammography have similar risk of advanced-stage disease and lower cumulative risk of a false-positive recommendation than annual screeners, regardless of comorbidity.MAR 05, 2013

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Women were more likely to have breast cancer that was overdiagnosed than to have earlier detection of a tumor that was destined to become large.OCT 12, 2016

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Women with BRCA genes are more susceptible to the adverse effects of x-ray mammography.MAR 09, 2000

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X-ray imaging increases the risk of breast cancer in those with BRCA 1/2 gene mutations.JUL 20, 2006

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X-ray Mammography: for every woman whose life is prolonged 10 women's lives will be shortened, i.e. "treated unnecessarily."JAN 01, 2009

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Disappearing breast masses caused by compression during mammography have been reported.NOV 01, 1987

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Radiation-induced angiosarcoma has been documented.APR 01, 2011

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Rupture of a cyst during compression at mammography has been reported.MAY 01, 1989

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"Radiation-induced reprogramming of breast cancer cells."MAY 01, 2012

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Abnormalities of the breast caused by biopsy may complicate mammographic findings.FEB 01, 1991

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Average glandular radiation dose per exposure in 3 D mammography imaging mode was on average 34 % higher than for conventional 2 D imaging.JUN 18, 2012

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Benign fat necrosis of the breast may mimic a breast malignancy.NOV 01, 1995

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Breast compression associated wtih x-ray mammography may increase the risk of disseminating cancer cells.MAR 01, 1993

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DNA damage induced by mammography may be especially problematic in high family risk patients.DEC 31, 2011

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Exposure of cells to 30 kVp X-Rays result in the induction of greater chromosome abberations than 80-120 kVp X-Rays.DEC 08, 2010

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It is not clear whether screening with mammography does more good than harm.MAR 01, 2010

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Low doses ionizing radiation enhances the invasiveness of breast cancer cells.AUG 19, 2011

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Low-energy radiation associated with x-ray mammography appear to be more harmful than the type associated with emissions from atomic bombs.JAN 01, 2002

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Mammography X-ray have been shown to induce DNA damage in human lymphocytes.MAY 01, 2005

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Mammography x-rays are mutagenic to mammalian cells indicating they may increase the risk of breast cancer in those who are exposed to them.SEP 01, 2002

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Radiation-induced breast cancers from mammography x-rays are potentially underestimated by a factor of four.JUN 01, 2009

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Recent radiobiological studies have provided compelling evidence that the low energy X-rays as used in mammography are approximately four times – but possibly as much as six times – more effective in causing mutational damage than higher energy X-rays.MAR 01, 2006

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The currently available reliable evidence does not show a survival benefit of mass screening for breast cancer (and the evidence is inconclusive for breast cancer mortality).MAY 01, 2004

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The Finnish routine screening proramme with mammography has resulted in a prolongation of life to two days for each woman screened.JAN 01, 1999

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The risks associated with mammography screening may be approximately five times higher than previously assumedAUG 01, 2004

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There is no reliable evidence that screening for breast cancer reduces mortality, while there is evidence that screening leads to more aggressive treatment.OCT 20, 2001

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X-ray mammography screening may not result in reduced breast cancer mortality.JAN 01, 2003

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X-ray mammography screening results in an overdiagnosis rate (the detection of cancers that will not cause death or symptoms) of 52%.JAN 01, 2009