Breast Cancer Screening

CAD Marks Cancers Missed in Double Reading of Screening Mammograms

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 29th, 2007

Computer aided detection (CAD) is a potentially useful adjunct to double reading of screening mammograms, according to a recently released study.

The study included 3,683 women who were part of the Oslo I study comparing screen-film mammography and full-field digital mammography. All women had both film and digital mammograms which were then independently interpreted by two radiologists. “Twenty nine cancers were prospectively diagnosed in the initial screening round,” said Per Skaane, MD, of Ullevaal University Hospital in Norway, and lead author of the study.

Double reading of screen-film mammograms resulted in the diagnosis of 27 of 29 cases of...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-03-29)

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