Search for dissertations about: "Bedrich Vitak"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Bedrich Vitak.

2. 1. Interval cancers, positive predictive value for malignance and other early quality indicators in mammographic screening for breast cancer

   Author : Bedrich Vitak; Ingvar Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : Mammography; Breast neoplasm; Breast cancer screening; Interval breast cancer; Metastasis; Mortality; MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

   Abstract : The study was designed to evaluate early quality indicators in screening for breast cancer. lt comprised, (i) investigations of compliance, recall, referral, cancer detection, and interval cancer rates in the Östergötland screening programme of women aged 40-74 years; (ii) evaluation of the three-stage diagnostic procedure for pre-operative assessment of women with suspicious mammographic findings; (iii) comprehensive analysis of all invasive interval cancers detected; and (iv) investigation into how to reduce the number of interval cancers without a concomitant increase in false positives. READ MORE