Breast Cancer With a Poor Prognosis Diagnosed After Screening Mammography With Negative Results

Anne Marie McCarthy; William E Barlow; Emily F Conant; Jennifer S Haas; Christopher I Li; Brian L Sprague; Katrina Armstrong; PROSPR Consortium

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.0352

Breast Cancer With a Poor Prognosis Diagnosed After Screening Mammography With Negative Results

JAMA Oncol. 2018 Jul 1;4(7):998-1001. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.0352.

Authors

Anne Marie McCarthy¹, William E Barlow², Emily F Conant³, Jennifer S Haas⁴, Christopher I Li⁵, Brian L Sprague⁶, Katrina Armstrong¹; PROSPR Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
² Cancer Research and Biostatistics, Seattle, Washington.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
⁴ Department of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁵ Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.
⁶ Departments of Radiology and Surgery and the University of Vermont Cancer Center, University of Vermont, Burlington.

Abstract

This study of data from the PROSPR consortium assesses the incidence of and risk factors associated with breast cancer with a poor prognosis after undergoing screening mammography with negative results.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Early Detection of Cancer
Female
Humans
Mammography / methods*
Negative Results
Prognosis

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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