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Some 10% of women in the USA develop breast cancer during their lifetime. Many, if not most, could be cured if the cancer were to be detected when it was small and confined to the breast. This requires optimum mammography with proper equipment, meticulous attention to technical considerations, familiarity with and recognition of the early and indirect mammographic signs of malignancy, and correlation with clinical signs and symptoms. Accuracy in the detection of breast cancer is in excess of 90% when these requirements are fulfilled (McLelland 1978), but suffers significantly when any of them is neglected.
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McLelland, R. (1990). Earlier Detection of Breast Cancer: An Overview. In: Brünner, S., Langfeldt, B. (eds) Advances in Breast Cancer Detection. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84065-4_2
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