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Benefits and Risks of Mammography

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In medical practice, mammography may be used as a diagnostic or as a screening procedure. As a diagnostic procedure, it is part of the evaluation of a patient with specific signs and symptoms, such as breast mass, pain, discharge, and abnormalities of the skin and axillary nodes. Because mammography may provide important information regarding these clinical problems, its use for this purpose has never been questioned. In this context, the issue of risk vs benefit does not arise since the value of the answers that mammography furnishes to these diagnostic problems cannot be given a numerical value for insertion into a benefit/risk calculation.

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Feig, S.A. (1984). Benefits and Risks of Mammography. In: Brünner, S., Langfeldt, B., Andersen, P.E. (eds) Early Detection of Breast Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82031-1_2

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