Intervalkarzinome

Interval breast cancers are tumors that are detected after a negative screening examination, during the (one- to two-year) interval, before the next examination of a mammographic screening programme. In most of the cases the tumor is palpable and detected by the woman herself. Interval cancers are usually more advanced cancers than screen-detected cancers with larger tumor sizes and, consequently, higher rate of axillary node involvement. We consider them „late detected cancers“ as, theoretically, they should have been detected many months earlier at the negative mammographic examination. However, it turns out t…