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M C Romans

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Utilization of mammography. Social and behavioral trends.

Key policy developments in the utilization of mammographic screening for the early detection of breast cancer in the U.S. since 1973 are reviewed. Recent data from the 1990 and 1992 Mammography Attitudes and Usage Studies on attitudes toward mammography and screening behaviors among U.S. women aged 40 and older are summarized. Physician screening behavior is discussed using data from the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society. The author concludes that additional efforts are needed to change screening behaviors among women and physicians and summarizes key issues for future research.

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Utilization of screening mammography--1990.

Although much has been accomplished in the last few years toward the early detection of breast cancer, we are far from a goal of universal acceptance of the recommended preventive health program of screening mammography. To take an analogy from the Papanicolaou smear, we are somewhere in the 1960s. Both women and physicians have more to learn, and they need to transfer that knowledge into practice.

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