Browsing by Author "Fletcher, Suzanne"
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Declining Recurrence among Ductal Carcinoma In situ Patients Treated with Breast-Conserving Surgery in the Community Setting
Habel, Laurel A; Achacoso, Ninah S; Haque, Reina; Geiger, Ann M; Puligandla, Balaram; Acton, Luana; Quesenberry, Charles P; Nekhlyudov, Larissa; Fletcher, Suzanne W.; Schnitt, Stuart Jay; Collins, Laura Christine (BioMed Central, 2009)Introduction: Randomized trials indicate that adjuvant radiotherapy plus tamoxifen decrease the five-year risk of recurrence among ductal carcinoma in situ patients treated with breast-conserving surgery from about 20% to ... -
How Well Do Second-year Students Learn Physical Diagnosis? Observational Study of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)
Hamann, Claus; Volkan, Kevin; Fishman, Mary B; Silvestri, Ronald Chiko; Simon, Steven R.; Fletcher, Suzanne W. (BioMed Central, 2002)Background: Little is known about using the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) in physical diagnosis courses. The purpose of this study was to describe student performance on an OSCE in a physical diagnosis ... -
Specificity of Clinical Breast Examination in Community Practice
Fenton, Joshua J.; Rolnick, Sharon J.; Harris, Emily L.; Barton, Mary B.; Barlow, William E.; Reisch, Lisa M.; Herrinton, Lisa J.; Geiger, Ann M.; Fletcher, Suzanne W.; Elmore, Joann G. (Springer-Verlag, 2007)Background: Millions of women receive clinical breast examination (CBE) each year, as either a breast cancer screening test or a diagnostic test for breast symptoms. While screening CBE had moderately high specificity ...