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Breast Cancer
Studies from E. Vigeland and co-researchers yield new data on breast cancer
March 20th, 2008
According to recent research from Norway, "The purpose of the study was to compare the performance of full-field digital mammography (FFDM) with soft-copy reading to screen film mammography (SFM) used during the first prevalent 2-year round of population-based screening. A total of 18,239 women aged 5069 years were screened with FFDM as part of the Norwegian Breast Cancer Screening Programme (NBCSP)." "Process indicators were compared to data from 324,763 women screened with SFM using the common national database of the NBCSP. The cancer detection rates were 0.77% (140/18,239) for FFDM and 0.65% (2,105/324,763) for SFM (p=0.058). For ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)
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