Tohno Eriko, Ueno Ei, Watanabe Hiroshi
Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
Breast Cancer. 2009;16(1):18-22. doi: 10.1007/s12282-008-0082-8. Epub 2008 Nov 14.
Ultrasound (US) screening of breast cancer was surveyed with the results of breast screening combined with mammography (MMG), US and clinical breast examination (CBE) at Ibaraki Health Service Association. Breast cancer is common among women in their late 40s in Japan, who tend to have small and dense breasts. Our results showed that US works as well as MMG in detecting breast cancers in women in their 40s, and both modalities are compensatory. There are many reports that the combination of MMG and US is a suitable method for breast screening in Japan. A large-scale randomized control trial is now ongoing to investigate whether breast screening by both MMG and US is useful to decrease breast cancer mortality.
在茨城县健康服务协会，对乳腺癌的超声（US）筛查与乳腺钼靶摄影（MMG）、超声及临床乳腺检查（CBE）相结合的乳腺筛查结果进行了调查。在日本，乳腺癌在40多岁的女性中很常见，她们的乳房往往较小且致密。我们的结果表明，在检测40多岁女性的乳腺癌方面，超声与乳腺钼靶摄影效果相当，且两种方式具有互补性。有许多报告称，乳腺钼靶摄影和超声相结合是日本乳腺筛查的合适方法。目前正在进行一项大规模随机对照试验，以调查乳腺钼靶摄影和超声联合进行乳腺筛查是否有助于降低乳腺癌死亡率。
