Breast Cancer Screening
Reports from School of Medicine describe recent advances in breast cancer screening
Published in Cancer Weekly, August 14th, 2007
Fresh data on breast cancer screening are presented in the report "A comparative study of conventional mammography film interpretations with soft copy readings of the same examinations. An acceptable mammography film digitizer must provide high-quality images at a level of diagnostic accuracy comparable to reading conventional film examinations. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are significant differences between the interpretations of conventional film-screen mammography examinations and soft copy readings of the images produced by a mammography film digitizer," scientists in the United States report.
"Eight radiologists interpreted 120 mammography...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-08-14)
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