Control of breast cancer through screening mammography.

There are more than 100 different malignancies that may develop in the human body. Unfortunately, very few of them can be controlled. Those we can control are not the most frequently occurring. Clinical research has made significant improvements in the past decades, attacking on all possible fronts: prevention, diagnosis/detection, and therapy. This overview article describes research results of the past 3 decades, demonstrating that early detection of breast cancer alters the natural history of the disease.