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Potential limits of physical examination and breast self‐examination in detecting small cancers of the breast. An unselected population‐based study of 1302 cases
Author(s) -
Saltzstein Sidney L
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19841001)54:7<1443::aid-cncr2820540736>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , mammography , population , lymph node , physical examination , breast examination , oncology , gynecology , cancer , environmental health
Neither a change in the average or median size of breast cancers, nor in the extent of axillary lymph node involvement, was seen in a total, unselected population study before and after an intensive public and professional education project in San Diego County. Comparison of these data with those from the Breast Cancer Detection Demonstration Project lends strong support for the greatly increased use of mammography if it is to be possible to detect the smaller, more curable cancers of the breast.