Skip to content

Opening book details…

Can I read Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems: Volume 4 (Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems (4)) on EtoBox?

Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems: Volume 4 (Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems (4)) by James C. Lin (Editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems: Volume 4 (Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems (4)) about?

In spite of the remarkable progress that has been made against cancer, the battle is far from over. It is estimated that there are 175,000 new female breast cancer cases, annually, and 40,000 deaths resulting from it in the U. S. In fact, breast cancer incidence rates have shown little change in the 1990s, while breast cancer death rates have been declining about 2percentperyearsince1990[Riesetal. ,1999]. Modernmammographyisrelieduponmost often for breast cancer screening. Mammograms can detect most breast cancers, but they miss some. Its accuracy and sensitivity are age and breast density dependent. For example, the false negative rate is about 25% for women under age 50, with invasive breast cancer [Kerlikowske et al. , 1996; 1997]. It reduces to 10% for women more than 50 years of age. Although the amount of radiation exposure during mammography is minimal - about the same as receiving a dental x-ray, the radiation from mammograms can cause additional breast cancer deaths [Feig, 1996; NIH, 1997]. (It has been estimated that if 10,000 women have yearly mammograms for ten years, the radiation from mammograms will cause one additional breast cancer death. ) Because the absolute ben

Who reads Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems: Volume 4 (Advances in Electromagnetic Fields in Living Systems (4))?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
James C. Lin (Editor)
Publisher
Springer London, Limited
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9786610608164
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Medical, Science, Physics

Other editions & translations

More by James C. Lin (Editor)

Browse all works by James C. Lin (Editor)

Similar books