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乳腺癌普查和乳腺X线照相在公众的理解中已成为同义词,但事实上却不一定是一回事。乳腺癌理想的普查方法应该是既能降低乳腺癌的病死率、假阳性率,花费又要相对便宜。进行普查需要费用,但不应该以降低对有症状患者的医疗服务为代价,也不应该耗费国家医疗卫生服务体系(NHS)的有限资源,以便花在同样重要的、但是公众没有特别关注的一些领域。
Breast cancer censuses and mammography have become synonymous with public understanding, but in fact it is not necessarily the same thing. The ideal census method for breast cancer should be to reduce the case fatality rate and false positive rate of breast cancer, and spend relatively cheaply. The cost of conducting a census should not be at the expense of reducing the cost of medical services to symptomatic patients nor should it cost the limited resources of the National Health Service (NHS) so that it is equally important but not of particular public concern field.