Saving Women's Lives
National Research Council / Institute of Medicine / Policy and Global Affairs / Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy / National Cancer Policy Board / Committee on New Approaches to Early Detection and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer / Petitti, Diana B. / Penhoet, Edward E. / Joy, Janet E.
The outlook for women with breast cancer has improved in recent years. Due to the combination of improved treatments and the benefits of mammography screening, breast cancer mortality has decreased steadily since 1989. Yet breast cancer remains a major problem, second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of death from cancer for women. To date, no means to prevent breast cancer has been discovered and experience has shown that treatments are...