Breast Cancer

North American mammographers prone to more false positives, study finds

Published in Health and Medicine Week, October 6th, 2003

Community-based mammography screening programs in North America are yielding a higher percentage of abnormal mammograms than corresponding programs in other countries, but without any apparent benefit in terms of a higher cancer detection rate, researchers report.

"This finding suggests that many, if not most, of the presumptively abnormal mammographic interpretations in screening programs with high percentages of abnormal mammograms turn out to be false positives," say study leader Joann G. Elmore, MD, of the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, and her colleagues.

False-positive mammograms can lead to unnecessary follow-up procedures...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2003-10-06)

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