Disease relevance of Mammography

• News media coverage of screening mammography for women in their 40s and tamoxifen for primary prevention of breast cancer [1].
• PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 196 women, aged 26 to 59 years, with proven BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations or strong family histories of breast or ovarian cancer underwent mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and clinical breast examination on a single day [2].
• Breast and chest wall hemorrhage after routine mammography in a patient receiving heparin [3].
• We have undertaken the first prospective study of acrylamide in food and risk of colon and rectal cancers using prospective data from the Swedish Mammography Cohort [4].
• PURPOSE: To prospectively and intraindividually compare equivalent (0.1 mmol per kilogram of body weight) doses of gadobenate dimeglumine and gadopentetate dimeglumine for accuracy of detection and characterization of breast lesions at contrast material-enhanced magnetic resonance (MR) mammography [5].

Psychiatry related information on Mammography

• Significant effects reported included reductions in cholesterol and blood pressure levels, weight, and disease symptoms and increases in the use of mammography and breast self-examination [6].
• CONCLUSIONS: Preliminary evaluations of the CADMIUM II prototype reinforce the value of representing explicitly decision making processes in computer aided mammography and of deriving these processes from image processing measurements [7].
• The behaviors studied were smoking cessation, quitting cocaine, weight control, high-fat diets, adolescent delinquent behaviors, safer sex, condom use, sunscreen use, radon gas exposure, exercise acquisition, mammography screening, and physicians' preventive practices with smokers [8].
• The authors examined the impact of psychological distress and the personality construct of conscientiousness (as measured by the Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness-Five Factor Inventory) on mammography utilization among women who were at increased risk for breast cancer [9].
• The first Navajo-language video to address such cultural barriers, it discusses the triad of early detection-breast self-examination, clinical examination, and mammography [10].

High impact information on Mammography

• CONCLUSIONS: Most news stories favored routine use of screening mammography and urged caution about using tamoxifen [1].
• Benefits and risks of screening mammography in women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations [11].
• Benefits and risks of screening mammography in women with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations [12].
• Postmenopausal estrogen replacement therapy may produce changes in the breast demonstrable as cystic or dysplastic by mammography [13].
• Does practice make perfect when interpreting mammography? Part II [14].

Chemical compound and disease context of Mammography

• When breast cancer patients and control patients with no breast lesions were assembled from patients who had all received mammography, the overall odds ratio was 0.5, and varied from 0.2 to 1.2 according to the patient's indication for estrogen treatment and the clinical reason for mammography [15].
• Milk and lactose intakes and ovarian cancer risk in the Swedish Mammography Cohort [16].
• We have compared the urinary excretion of the mutagen malonaldehyde (MDA) in premenopausal women at different risks for breast cancer as determined by the appearance of the breast parenchyma on mammography [17].
• Accuracy of technetium-99m sestamibi scintimammography and X-ray mammography in premenopausal women with suspected breast cancer [18].
• Thallium-201 breast scans were performed preoperatively in 72 female patients with breast abnormalities detected by mammography and/or ultrasonography (7.5-13 MHz), in order to differentiate benign from malignant breast disease [19].

Biological context of Mammography

• Four hundred eighty-four patients undergoing mammography and 498 patients visiting their obstetrician-gynecologist were asked whether they would take a breast cancer 1 (BRCA1) test to detect a genetic susceptibility to breast cancer [20].
• Regarding preventive medicine, inequity was high and favoured the rich for mammography and cervical screening; inequity was lower for flu immunisation and cholesterol screening but still favoured the higher socioeconomic groups [21].
• PROGRAM COMPONENTS: Comprehensive review and discussion of risk factors, clinical assessment, surveillance recommendations that include mammography, CBE and BSE, genetics consultation (Familial Breast Cancer Clinic) and psychosocial support [22].
• CT, DSA, MRI, interventional radiology, ESWL, US, mammography, computers in radiology and PACS may save 10-80% of total cost for diagnosis and treatment of disease [23].
• All patients should receive standard health tests, such as cholesterol screening and mammography, regardless of their sexual orientation [24].

Anatomical context of Mammography

• Detection of axillary lymph node metastases in breast carcinoma by technetium-99m sestamibi breast scintigraphy, ultrasound and conventional mammography [25].
• An RBE = 2.7 was calculated for the yield of HPRT mutants in human fibroblasts exposed to mammography relative to conventional X-rays and an RBE = 2.4 was obtained for the CD59 mutant frequency in A(L) cells irradiated with low-filtered 30 kVp relative to conventional X-rays [26].

Associations of Mammography with chemical compounds

• The Women's Leadership Summit on Mammography held at the U.S. Capitol [27].
• METHODS: We obtained formalin-fixed biopsy specimens of breast tissue excised from 128 patients with breast lesions detected by mammography [28].
• Nonetheless, in patients younger than 60 years of age, both 6 and 12 months of therapy compared favorably with other established medical interventions, such as screening mammography and cholesterol reduction programs [29].
• SETTING: Mammography registries in California (n = 1), New Hampshire (n = 1), New Mexico (n = 1), Vermont (n = 1), Washington State n = 2), and Colorado (n = 1) [30].
• Measured mammography spectra for a molybdenum target-molybdenum filter unit were utilized [31].

Gene context of Mammography

• Screening with clinical breast examination and mammography showed lower sensitivity in BRCA1 or BRCA2 carriers than in the general population [32].
• The difference between CE MRI and mammography sensitivities was particularly pronounced in BRCA1 carriers (13 cancers; 92%vs 23%, p=0.004) [33].
• RESULTS: Mammography use between waves increased significantly (P < 0.05 after adjusting for education, income, and age) in all but one area (from 19% to 33% in wave 1 to 35% to 59% in wave 2) [34].
• Sixty-eight BRCA-families underwent surveillance using annual mammography, transvaginal ultrasound, and estimation of CA125 [35].
• Pilot studies of aromatase inhibitors described elsewhere in this session have begun in healthy women with dense mammography, or a high-risk genetic and/or histocytopathologic profile, to determine potential efficacy, as well as effects on end-organ function [36].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Mammography

• CONCLUSION: Mammography alone, and also mammography combined with breast ultrasound, seems insufficient for early diagnosis of breast cancer in women who are at increased familial risk with or without documented BRCA mutation [37].
• Image quality and radiation exposures of a mammographic technique using direct radiographic magnification at 2 X with a microfocal spot x-ray tube and a fast, double screen-film system were compared to those of conventional contact mammography with a rare-earth screen and molybdenum target tube [38].
• Between August 1985 and November 1987, 150 patients with 167 biopsy-proved lesions were examined with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging enhanced with gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid, mammography, and palpation [39].
• Results of preliminary clinical trials of the positron emission mammography system PEM-I: a dedicated breast imaging system producing glucose metabolic images using FDG [40].
• Data from the 1987 National Health Interview Survey Cancer Control Supplement were used to estimate multivariate logistic regression models of diet change, mammography utilization, stool blood test utilization, and smoking [41].

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