Saving Women's Lives: Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis »

Thanks to higher rates of early detection and new treatments, the mortality rate from breast cancer has declined steadily, but still about 40,000 women die of breast cancer each year and about 200,000 new cases are diagnosed. This is partially because there is at present no certain way to prevent breast cancer and the technology and trained personnel sometimes are not adequate to make proper diagnoses. In addition, many women decline to undergo mammograms based on fear, stories in the media, or personal experience with false positives or pain. To continue to improve the recovery rate from breast cancer, the authors recommend improving current applications of screening mammography, integrating biology, technology and risk models to develop new screening strategies, improving the environment for research and development, and improving the implementation and use of new technologies. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR