Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Current breast cancer screening guidelines may lead to more missed cases | Synopsis

Current breast cancer screening guidelines may lead to more missed cases

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The mammogram screening guidelines set forth by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), one of the top advisory panels on health issues to the government, may lead to more missed cancers and a decline in screening, new studies have concluded. Two new studies that looked at the effectiveness of the guidelines were presented on Nov. 27 at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago 9 Photos Busted! 8 mammogram truths every woman must know About one out of eight women in the United States will get invasive breast cancer during their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. In 2012, there will be about 226,870 new cases of invasive breast cancer and about 63,000 cases of new cases of carcinoma in situ (CIS), the earliest state of breast cancer. In total, 39,510 women are expected to die in 2012 from the disease.

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Dr. Elizabeth Arleo

Overall Sentiment: 0.115826

Relevance: 0.312829

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0.127614"Recommendations on screening mammography are extremely important public policy and we wanted to contribute to that dialogue," author Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, assistant professor of radiology at New York - Presbyterian Hospital -- Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, said
-0.157284"Recommendations on screening mammography are extremely important public policy and we wanted to contribute to that dialogue," author Dr. Elizabeth Arleo, assistant professor of radiology at New York - Presbyterian Hospital -- Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, said in a press release. "We get questions all day long from patients and referring physicians on the appropriateness of screening mammography. The inconsistent information is very confusing for everyone."
-0.210167"It seems unacceptable to potentially miss nearly 20 percent of the breast cancers we are identifying," Arleo said. ...
0.0765064"It seems unacceptable to potentially miss nearly 20 percent of the breast cancers we are identifying," Arleo said. "This, in our view, would represent a substantial degree of under-diagnosis."
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  • Number of Quotes: 4
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Dr. David C. Levin

Overall Sentiment: 0.216503

Relevance: 0.270367

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0.243125"We'll never see 1,000 out of 1,000 women getting a screening mammogram, but you'd like to see that number closer to 1,000, and certainly higher than 322," he said. ...
0.0762425"We'll never see 1,000 out of 1,000 women getting a screening mammogram, but you'd like to see that number closer to 1,000, and certainly higher than 322," he said. "We need to continue to follow these numbers and to watch the breast cancer mortality statistics."
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  • Number of Quotes: 2
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  • Mean: 0.15968375
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Dr. Therese Bevers

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Relevance: 0.18867

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HealthCondition: breast cancer

Overall Sentiment: -0.310215

Relevance: 0.892698

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Organization: American Cancer Society

Overall Sentiment: 0.0747718

Relevance: 0.366822

Organization: Task Force

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.313095

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