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Breast Cancer
Findings from University of Vermont in breast cancer reported
March 5th, 2009
"One might speculate that radiologists who enjoy mammography may exhibit better performance than radiologists who do not. AND MET HODS. One hundred thirty-one radiologists at three Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) registries completed a survey about their characteristics, clinical practices, and attitudes related to screening mammography," scientists writing in the American Journal of Roentgenology report. "Survey results were linked with BCSC performance data for 662,084 screening and 33,977 diagnostic mammograms. Using logistic regression, we modeled the odds of an abnormal interpretation, cancer detection, sensitivity, and specificity among...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-05)
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