Breast Cancer Screening: Making Sense of Complex and Evolving Evidence

Breast Cancer Screening: Making Sense of Complex and Evolving Evidence covers broad aspects of breast cancer screening specifically focusing on current evidence, emerging evidence, and issues that will be critical for future breast screening practice such as tailored screening and shared decision-making in breast screening. The scope of the book is relevant to a global audience. This book provides balanced perspectives on this increasingly controversial topic, using scientific evidence to explain the evolution of knowledge relating to breast cancer screening. Breast Cancer Screening covers the key points related to this debate including the context of increasingly complex and conflicting evidence, divergent opinions on the benefits and harms of breast screening, and variability in screening practice and outcomes across settings around the world. Explains complex and evolving evidence on breast screening with a balanced approachProvides balanced information and up-to-date evidence in an increasingly complex areaAddresses emerging topical issues such as screening trials of digital breast tomosynthesis, tailored breast screening, and shared decision-making in breast screeningAssists academics and researchers in identifying areas needing further research INDICE: Foreward1. IntroductionTheme: The Evidence2. Estimates of screening benefit: the randomized trials of breast screening3. Balancing the benefits & harms of screening.4. Overview of breast screening using observational studies: strengths and limitations5. The role of modelling6. Challenges in understanding and quantifying over-diagnosis (and over-treatment)Theme: Risk-based breast screening7. Screening older women: Overview of the evidence8. Screening younger women: Overview of the evidence 9. Screening women with a personal history of breast cancer10. Screening women with known or suspected cancer gene mutations11. Screening women with dense breast tissue 12. Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of tailored or risk-based screeningTheme: The Future of breast screening13. Ethical and societal considerations in breast cancer screening14. Treatment of screen-detected breast cancer: can we avoid or minimize over-treatment?15. Technologic evolution and advanced imaging modalities: from film screen to digital breast tomosynthesis and emerging technologies16. Overview of the evidence on digital breast tomosynthesis for population screening (focus on screening trials)17. Informed/shared decision-making in breast screeningAppendix 1

• ISBN: 978-0-12-802209-2
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 456
• Fecha Publicación: 20/03/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés