Breast Cancer
Mammogram false positive recall rate may be increased in women with other risk factors
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, May 1st, 2006
Scientists in Spain sought "to investigate the cumulative false positive recall rate throughout the period of participation in a population based breast cancer screening program and to examine its association with women related factors." They performed an "analysis of a database to estimate the cumulative false positive recall rate after 10 biennial mammograms in a cohort of women."
X. Castells and colleagues of the Institut Municipal d'Investigacio Medica in Madrid explained, "Cumulative risk after 10 rounds was calculated by projecting forward the...
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