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Breast Cancer Screening
Digital mammography is more accurate in premenopausal or perimenopausal women
December 15th, 2005
Digital mammography is more accurate than film in premenopausal or perimenopausal women. "Film mammography has limited sensitivity for the detection of breast cancer in women with radiographically dense breasts," according to scientists writing in the New England Journal of Medicine. "We assessed whether the use of digital mammography would avoid some of these limitations." E.D. Pisano and colleagues explained, "A total of 49,528 asymptomatic women presenting for screening mammography at 33 sites in the United States and Canada underwent both digital and film mammography. All relevant information was available for 42,760 of these women (86.3...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-15)
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