Screening For Cancer: Breast Cancer
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Screening for cancer
Screening exams
Several exams can detect breast cancer. Some are used for routine screening. The term, "screening", as applied to cancer detection, means that the test is provided to a patient when the patient has no known abnormalities referable to the portion of the body that is being tested. If a patient herself detects a breast lump, then the subsequent evaluation performed by the physician is no longer considered a "screening test", since an abnormality was detected by the patient.
| Last updated: | April 23, 2007 |
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