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Cardiovascular disease (CVD), lung cancer (LC), and respiratory diseases are main causes of death in smokers and former smokers undergoing low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for LC screening. We assessed whet...
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Open AccessValidation of a new fully automated software for 2D digital mammographic breast density evaluation in predicting breast cancer risk
We compared accuracy for breast cancer (BC) risk stratification of a new fully automated system (DenSeeMammo—DSM) for breast density (BD) assessment to a non-inferiority threshold based on radiologists’ visual...
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Open AccessVolumetric breast density and risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode: a cohort study
We evaluated the association between volumetric breast density (BD) and risk of advanced cancers after a negative screening episode.
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Open AccessMonitoring vaccine and non-vaccine HPV type prevalence in the post-vaccination era in women living in the Basilicata region, Italy
A large free-of-charge quadrivalent HPV (qHPV) vaccination program, covering four cohorts annually (women 11, 14, 17 and 24 years), has been implemented in Basilicata since 2007. This study evaluated vaccine a...
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Patterns and determinants of receipt of follow-up mammography and/or clinical examination in a cohort of Italian breast cancer survivors
Information regarding the use of mammography by breast cancer survivors is limited. This study aimed at evaluating the compliance to surveillance mammography and/or clinical breast examination and the associat...
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Open AccessBreast cancer screening: are we seeing the benefit?
A decline in breast cancer mortality has been observed in western European Countries since the middle of the 1990s.
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Open AccessBalancing harms and benefits of service mammography screening programs: a cohort study
The use of screening mammography is still under debate within the medical community. The aim of this study is to define a balance sheet of benefits (breast cancer mortality reduction) and harms (overdiagnosis)...
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Misclassification of breast cancer as cause of death in a service screening area
The aim of this study was to assess the misclassification of cause of death for breast cancer cases, and to evaluate the differential misclassification between cases detected in an organized screening program ...
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Open AccessEstimate of overdiagnosis of breast cancer due to mammography after adjustment for lead time. A service screening study in Italy
Excess of incidence rates is the expected consequence of service screening. The aim of this paper is to estimate the quota attributable to overdiagnosis in the breast cancer screening programmes in Northern an...
