TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of Mammography Performance in the United States
T2 - The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium
AU - Yabroff, K. Robin
AU - Ballard-Barbash, Rachel
AU - Carney, Patricia
AU - Barlow, William
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored collaborative network of mammography registries with linkages to tumor registries and pathology data in the US. It was established in 1994 in response to a legislative mandate from the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 to evaluate the performance of screening mammography in community practice and related breast cancer outcomes. As of May 2006, the BCSC has collected data for more than 2 million women and more than 6 million mammography exams. Approximately 74,000 breast cancers have been diagnosed. The size of the population-based BCSC database, the longitudinal nature of these data on screening and cancer diagnoses, and the multidisciplinary teams of investigators, including radiologists, primary care physicians, pathologists, epidemiologists, health services researchers, and statisticians, make the BCSC a unique research resource. Investigators are encouraged to collaborate with the NCI-supported BCSC on research to improve understanding of breast cancer screening practices and related outcomes in the US.
AB - The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) is a National Cancer Institute (NCI)-sponsored collaborative network of mammography registries with linkages to tumor registries and pathology data in the US. It was established in 1994 in response to a legislative mandate from the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 to evaluate the performance of screening mammography in community practice and related breast cancer outcomes. As of May 2006, the BCSC has collected data for more than 2 million women and more than 6 million mammography exams. Approximately 74,000 breast cancers have been diagnosed. The size of the population-based BCSC database, the longitudinal nature of these data on screening and cancer diagnoses, and the multidisciplinary teams of investigators, including radiologists, primary care physicians, pathologists, epidemiologists, health services researchers, and statisticians, make the BCSC a unique research resource. Investigators are encouraged to collaborate with the NCI-supported BCSC on research to improve understanding of breast cancer screening practices and related outcomes in the US.
KW - breast neoplasms
KW - mammography
KW - mass screening
KW - surveillance
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U2 - 10.1053/j.sembd.2007.09.006
DO - 10.1053/j.sembd.2007.09.006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:36448949736
SN - 1092-4450
VL - 10
SP - 89
EP - 101
JO - Seminars in Breast Disease
JF - Seminars in Breast Disease
IS - 2
ER -