Research Catalog

Title

Saving women's lives : strategies for improving breast cancer detection and diagnosis / Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, National Cancer Policy Board, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs Division ; Janet E. Joy, Edward E. Penhoet, and Diana B. Petitti, editors.

Publication

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Joy, Janet E. (Janet Elizabeth), 1953-
• Penhoet, Edward E.
• Petitti, Diana B.
• National Cancer Policy Board (U.S.). Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Policy and Global Affairs.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy.

Description

xxi, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Building on the 2001 report Mammography and Beyond, this new book not only examines ways to improve implementation and use of new and current breast cancer detection technologies but also evaluates the need to develop tools that identify women who would benefit most from early detection screening. Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis encourages more research that integrates the development, validation, and analysis of the types of technologies in clinical practice that promote improved risk identification techniques. In this way, methods and technologies that improve detection and diagnosis can be more effectively developed and implemented."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Breast > Cancer > Prevention
• Evaluation Studies
• Mass Screening
• Medical screening
• Breast > Cancer > Government policy > United States
• Breast Neoplasms > diagnosis
• Breast > Cancer > Diagnosis
• Research
• Mammography

Genre/Form

Evaluation Study.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic form via the Internet as viewed 12/23/2004.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Benefits and limitations of mammography -- 3. Improving breast cancer screening services -- 4. Understanding breast cancer risk -- 5. Biologically based technologies -- 6. The necessary environment for research and development -- 7. Translating new technologies into improved patient outcomes -- 8. Recommendations -- App. A. Breast cancer technology overview -- App. B. Workshop agendas -- App. C. ROC analysis : key statistical tool for evaluating detection technologies -- App. D. Common weaknesses in study designs.

ISBN

• 0309092132 (hardcover)
• 0309094380 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004022343

OCLC

• ocm56591312
• SCSB-5165792

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries