Mammography and Early Breast Cancer Detection: How Screening Saves Lives

by Alan Berch Hollingsworth

Book Overview

Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community's decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific debate--back-room politics and hidden agendas have played as much a role as clinical data, leading to some surprising conclusions.

Written by one of the first physicians in the country to specialize...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476666105
• ISBN13: 9781476666105
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher