Breast Cancer Screening

Table of Contents 1. Foreword: Breast Cancer Screening: A focus on the evidence Nehmat Houssami and Diana Miglioretti 2. Breast Cancer Screening: balancing evidence with culture, politics, money, and media Joann G. Elmore 3. Estimates of Screening Benefit: The Randomized Trials of Breast Cancer Screening Heidi D. Nelson, Linda L. Humphrey, Rongwei Fu 4. Weighing the benefits and harms: Screening mammography in the balance Mireille J.M. Broeders, Theodora M. Ripping, Rebecca A. Hubbard 5. The Importance of Observational Evidence to Estimate and Monitor Mortality Reduction from Current Breast Cancer Screening Russell P. Harris 6. The role of microsimulation modeling in evaluating the outcomes and effect of screening Clyde B. Schechter, Nicolien T. Van Ravesteyn 7. Challenges in understanding and quantifying over-diagnosis and over-treatment Alexandra L. Barratt, Gemma L. Jacklyn 8. Challenges and opportunities in the implementation of risk-based screening for breast cancer Gareth D. Evans, Anthony Howell, Anthony J. Maxwell , Susan Astley 9. Breast Cancer Screening in the Older Woman Mara A. Schonberg 10. Screening Women in their Forties Heidi D. Nelson 11. Screening for Breast Cancer in Women with Dense Breasts Jeffrey A. Tice and Karla Kerlikowske 12. Screening women with known or suspected cancer gene mutations Xuan-Anh Phi, Anna M Chiarelli, Geertruida H de Bock 13. Imaging Surveillance of Women with a Personal History of Breast Cancer Janie M. Lee and Nehmat Houssami 14. Evolution of mammography screening: from film screen to digital breast tomosynthesis Sophia Zackrisson and Nehmat Houssami 15. Ethical and Societal Considerations in Breast Cancer Screening Lisa M. Parker and Stacy M. Carter 16. Treatment of screen-detected breast cancer: can we avoid or minimize over-treatment? J. Michael Dixon and David Cameron 17. Informed and shared decision-making in breast screening Jolyn Hersch, Jesse Jansen, Kristen McCaffery