Screening for breast cancer

Kimberly S Peairs; Youngjee Choi; Rosalyn W Stewart; Heather F Sateia

doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2017.02.004

Screening for breast cancer

Semin Oncol. 2017 Feb;44(1):60-72. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2017.02.004. Epub 2017 Feb 13.

Authors

Kimberly S Peairs¹, Youngjee Choi², Rosalyn W Stewart², Heather F Sateia²

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Baltimore, MD; Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD. Electronic address: kpeairs@jhmi.edu.
² Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

PMID: 28395765
DOI: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2017.02.004

Abstract

This review will give a general overview of the impact of breast cancer, as well as breast cancer risk factors, identification of high-risk groups, screening modalities, and guidelines for screening average-risk and high-risk individuals, including a case discussion of the primary care provider's approach to screening.

Keywords: Breast cancer screening.

Publication types

Case Reports
Review

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / etiology
Breast Neoplasms / mortality
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Early Detection of Cancer*
Female
Humans
Mammography
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Practice Guidelines as Topic