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| Mammography. US NIH |
Breast Cancer : Breast Cancer is the most common lethal malignancy among women in the Western World. Approximately a quarter million American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, and roughly 40,000 will die of it. However, remarkable scientific progress over the last four decades has led to important advances in clinical evaluation and management in several areas of breast cancer, including risk, prevention, screening, and treatment. These advances have resulted in substantially lower mortality while decreasing the adverse consequences of treatment.