Long-term benefits of breast screening

Screening for breast cancer with mammography

2013 • 1,806 citations

Diagnostic Performance of Digital versus Film Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening

2005 • 1,800 citations

REDUCTION IN MORTALITY FROM BREAST CANCER AFTER MASS SCREENING WITH MAMMOGRAPHY

1985 • 1,760 citations

Screening for Breast Cancer: An Update for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

2009 • 1,203 citations

Long-term effects of mammography screening: updated overview of the Swedish randomised trials

2002 • 1,161 citations

Ten- to Fourteen-Year Effect of Screening on Breast Cancer Mortality<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn2">2</xref>

1982 • 858 citations

Swedish Two-County Trial: Impact of Mammographic Screening on Breast Cancer Mortality during 3 Decades

2011 • 731 citations

Canadian National Breast Screening Study-2: 13-Year Results of a Randomized Trial in Women Aged 50-59 Years

2000 • 519 citations

Rethinking Screening for Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer

2009 • 516 citations

Overdiagnosis in publicly organised mammography screening programmes: systematic review of incidence trends

2009 • 496 citations

Effect of mammographic screening from age 40 years on breast cancer mortality at 10 years' follow-up: a randomised controlled trial

2006 • 495 citations

Periodic Screening for Breast Cancer: The Health Insurance Plan Project and Its Sequelae, 1963-1986

1989 • 446 citations

The Canadian National Breast Screening Study-1: Breast Cancer Mortality after 11 to 16 Years of Follow-up: A Randomized Screening Trial of Mammography in Women Age 40 to 49 Years

2002 • 398 citations

14 years of follow-up from the Edinburgh randomised trial of breast-cancer screening

1999 • 388 citations

The randomized trials of breast cancer screening: what have we learned?

2004 • 371 citations

Comparison of Screening Mammography in the United States and the United Kingdom

2003 • 315 citations

Screening for breast cancer with mammography

2011 • 305 citations

Incidence of breast cancer in Norway and Sweden during introduction of nationwide screening: prospective cohort study

2004 • 282 citations

The Natural History of Invasive Breast Cancers Detected by Screening Mammography

2008 • 255 citations

Reduction in Breast Cancer Mortality from Organized Service Screening with Mammography: 1. Further Confirmation with Extended Data

2006 • 252 citations

Absolute Numbers of Lives Saved and Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screeninq, from a Randomized Trial and from the Breast Screening Programme in England

2010 • 238 citations

Mammographic tumor features can predict long‐term outcomes reliably in women with 1–14‐mm invasive breast carcinoma

2004 • 217 citations

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer: Estimates of overdiagnosis from two trials of mammographic screening for breast cancer

2005 • 172 citations

Breast cancer multifocality, disease extent, and survival

2011 • 97 citations

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer: Overdiagnosis in randomised controlled trials of breast cancer screening

2005 • 88 citations

Likelihood That a Woman With Screen-Detected Breast Cancer Has Had Her “Life Saved” by That Screening

2011 • 76 citations

An estimate of overdiagnosis 15 years after the start of mammographic screening in Florence

2009 • 68 citations

The Swedish Two-County Trial of mammographic screening: cluster randomisation and end point evaluation

2003 • 67 citations

Mammographic tumour features can reliably predict the long-term outcome of women with 1–14 mm invasive breast cancer: suggestions for revision of current therapeutic practice and the TNM classification system

2004 • 55 citations

Are breast cancer screening programmes increasing rates of mastectomy? Observational study

2002 • 54 citations

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of breast cancer: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment in service screening

2005 • 53 citations

Effect of mammography screening on surgical treatment for breast cancer in Norway: comparative analysis of cancer registry data

2011 • 49 citations

Modelling the cumulative risk of a false-positive screening test

2010 • 47 citations

Treatment and survival in breast cancer in the Eastern Region of England

2009 • 34 citations

Long-term Risk of False-Positive Screening Results and Subsequent Biopsy as a Function of Mammography Use

2006 • 33 citations

Automated 3-D Breast Ultrasound as a Promising Adjunctive Screening Tool for Examining Dense Breast Tissue

2011 • 29 citations

European Society of Mastology Consensus Conference on Breast Cancer Screening: Report of the Evaluation Committee

1994 • 20 citations

Screening mammography re-evaluated

2000 • 15 citations

Cancer mortality in the 50-69 year age group before and after screening

2010 • 14 citations

Screening Results, Controversies, and Guidelines

2011 • 6 citations