Open AccessThe Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2018 Edition
Author(s) -
Takayoshi Uematsu,
Kenichiro Nakashima,
Mari Kikuchi,
Kazunori Kubota,
Akihiko Suzuki,
Satoshi Nakano,
Kouichi Hirokaga,
Ken Yamaguchi,
Shigehira Saji,
Hiroji Iwata
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
breast cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.131
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1880-4233
pISSN - 1340-6868
DOI - 10.1007/s12282-019-01025-7
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , clinical practice , breast cancer screening , surgical oncology , breast imaging , modalities , medical physics , mammography , breast density , cancer , intervention (counseling) , family medicine , oncology , nursing , social science , sociology
This article updates readers as to what is new in the Japanese Breast Cancer Society Clinical Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis, 2018 Edition. Breast cancer screening issues are covered, including matters of breast density and possible supplemental modalities, along with appropriate pre-operative/follow-up diagnostic breast imaging tests. Up-to-date clinical practice guidelines for breast cancer screening and diagnosis should help to provide patients and clinicians with not only evidence-based breast imaging options, but also accurate and balanced information about the benefits and harms of intervention, which ultimately enables shared decision making about imaging test plans.