Breast Cancer Screening Making Sense of Complex and Evolving Evidence [Hardcover]

Breast Cancer Screening: Making Sense of Complex and Evolving Evidence covers broad aspects of breast cancer screening specifically focusing on current evidence, emerging evidence, and issues that will be critical for future breast screening practice such as tailored screening and shared decision-making in breast screening. The scope of the book is relevant to a global audience.

This book provides balanced perspectives on this increasingly controversial topic, using scientific evidence to explain the evolution of knowledge relating to breast cancer screening. Breast Cancer Screening covers the key points related to this debate including the context of increasingly complex and conflicting evidence, divergent opinions on the benefits and harms of breast screening, and variability in screening practice and outcomes across settings around the world.

• Explains complex and evolving evidence on breast screening with a balanced approach
• Provides balanced information and up-to-date evidence in an increasingly complex area
• Addresses emerging topical issues such as screening trials of digital breast tomosynthesis, tailored breast screening, and shared decision-making in breast screening
• Assists academics and researchers in identifying areas needing further research

1. Foreword: Breast Cancer Screening: A focus on the evidence 2. Breast Cancer Screening: balancing evidence with culture, politics, money, and media 3. Estimates of Screening Benefit: The Randomized Trials of Breast Cancer Screening 4. Weighing the benefits and harms: Screening mammography in the balance 5. The Importance of Observational Evidence to Estimate and Monitor Mortality Reduction from Current Breast Cancer Screening 6. The role of microsimulation modeling in evaluating the outcomes and effect of screenlÃ