PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gutter, Z.
TI  - Cancer of the remaining breast: radiologic contribution to diagnosis
DP  - 1976 Jan 10
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 27--30
VI  - 114
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/114/1/27.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/114/1/27.full
SO  - CMAJ1976 Jan 10; 114
AB  - Between 1953 and 1973 the mean incidence of a first breast cancer in northern Alberta was 0.47 per 1000 women. However, in women who had had a first breast cancer the crude incidence of a second primary cancer in the opposite breast was 1.3%. The rate of discovery of a second primary cancer increased after a multidisciplinary approach was instituted at the follow-up clinics. Mammography has proved to be valuable in diagnosis. By this technique 19 (36.5%) of the 52 cancers occurring in the remaining breast were identified when they were clinically unsuspected.