Breast Cancer Screening
Breast Screening Study Finds Superior Performance of Hologic's Selenia Direct Digital Mammography Over Film Mammography
Published in Medical Imaging Week, September 8th, 2007
Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX), a leading provider of state-of-the-art diagnostic and digital imaging systems directed towards women's health, announced the publication of the first large scale study comparing the results of a particular digital mammography technology to women screened with film. The Vestfold County Study by E. Vigeland, H. Klaasen, T.A. Klingen, S. Hofvind and P. Skaane was published in the on line version of European Radiology in August 2007. The researchers compared cancer detection and recall rates of 18,239 women screened with a Hologic Selenia digital mammography system to the results of 324,763 women screened with film over a two year period.
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