Screening for breast cancer with mammography
Information
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001877.pub2Copy DOI
- Database:
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- Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- Version published:
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- 08 July 2009see what's new
- Type:
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- Intervention
- Stage:
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- Review
- Cochrane Editorial Group:
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Cochrane Breast Cancer Group
- Copyright:
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- Copyright © 2009 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Authors
Contributions of authors
PCG wrote the draft protocol and did the searches. Both authors extracted the main data independently for this update and contributed to the review. PCG is guarantor.
Sources of support
Internal sources
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Rigshospitalet, Denmark.
External sources
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Danish Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Denmark.
Declarations of interest
None. We had no a priori opinion on the effect of screening for breast cancer when we were asked in 1999 by the Danish Institute for Health Technology Assessment, the National Board of Health, to review the randomised trials.
Acknowledgements
We thank Freda Alexander, Ingvar Andersson, Cornelia Baines, Niels Bjurstam, Gunnar Fagerberg, Jan Frisell, Anthony B. Miller and Sam Shapiro for comments on their trials, Friederike M. Perl for pointing out an inconsistency in one of the trials, Mike Clarke for advice, Ole Olsen who was an author on the first version of this review and wrote the draft section on methodological quality of the trials for that version, and Kay Dickersin for comments on the update of the review.
Version history
| Published | Title | Stage | Authors | Version |
| 2013 Jun 04 | Screening for breast cancer with mammography | Review | Peter C Gøtzsche, Karsten Juhl Jørgensen | |
| 2011 Jan 19 | Screening for breast cancer with mammography | Review | Peter C Gøtzsche, Margrethe Nielsen | |
| 2009 Oct 07 | Screening for breast cancer with mammography | Review | Peter C Gøtzsche, Margrethe Nielsen | |
| 2009 Jul 08 | Screening for breast cancer with mammography | Review | Peter C Gøtzsche, Margrethe Nielsen | |
| 2001 Oct 23 | Screening for breast cancer with mammography | Review | Ole Olsen, Peter C Gøtzsche | |
Notes
This review was updated for Issue 4, 2006. Data on treatment (surgery, radiotherapy and other adjuvant therapy), data after extended follow‐up from the trials, and data on numbers of cancers identified have been added.
