The monograph collects experience from the principal breast cancer screening programmes carried out in Europe. Various aspects of planning, organisation, monitoring are discussed as well as clinical diagnostic and therapeutic problems related to screening.

Inhalt
Breast Cancer: The Scene in Europe.- Overview of European Screening Programmes.- Evidence of the Effectiveness of Breast Cancer Screening.- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Breast Cancer Screening.- Programme Organisation in Breast Cancer Screening.- Compliance in Breast Cancer Screening: the Spanish Experience.- Breast Cancer Screening in Montpellier.- The Bas-Rhin Model: A Non-Centralised Screening Programme.- Non-Invasive Breast Cancer: An Important Screening Problem.- Criteria for Recall and Diagnostic Assessment.- Pathology in Breast Cancer Screening: A 15-Year Experience from a Swedish Programme.- Therapeutic Aspects of Screen-Detected Lesions: The Role of the Surgeon.- Monitoring the Impact of a Breast Cancer Screening Programme.- Training in Mammographic Screening.- Quality Control in Mammography.- Quality of Life and Breast Cancer Screening.