Breast-cancer screening results in worrying number of false-positive results.Reports the high frequency of false-positive results in breast-cancer screening mammography in the United States. Statistics; Need to decrease false-positives and counsel women about them.Bradbury...
EDITOR —Werneke and McPherson1 question the detection rates of cancer observed in the breast screening programme in East Sussex, Brighton, and Hove that we reported in our recent paper.2 They suggest that these are the result of a high proportion of false positive screens. It is unfortunate ...
not have any mammography exams. Both screening and diagnostic US exams were included. Screening exams are performed for women who have no symptoms or signs of breast cancer while diagnostic US exams can be used to evaluate women who present with symptoms such as a new lump or pain in the br...
Screening for Breast Cancer: A Comparative Effectiveness Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Evidence Synthesis No. 231. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2024. AHRQ publication 23-05303-EF-1. 5. Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program. Breast: SEER 5-year age-...
False positives, on the other hand, occur when there is a positive screening mammography assessment that leads to more diagnostic work-up but no diagnosis of breast cancer. While false positives are ultimately discovered as such, the da...
Sharpening a medical debate about the costs and benefits of cancer screening, a new report estimates that the U.S. spends $4 billion a year on unnecessary medical costs due to mammograms that generate false alarms, and on treatment of certain breast tumors unlikely to cause problems. ...
A small number of studies have investigated breast cancer (BC) risk among women with a history of false-positive recall (FPR) in BC screening, but none of them has used time-to-event analysis while at the same time quantifying the effect of false-negative diagnostic assessment (FNDA). FNDA...
Study objective: To investigate the cumulative false positive recall rate throughout the period of participation in a population based breast cancer screening programme and to examine its association with women related factors. Design: Analysis of a database to estimate the cumulative false positive rec...
SUMMARY 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Relative mortality benefit The breast cancer screening programmes in the United Kingdom currently invite women aged 50–70 years for screening mammo- graphy every 3 years. Since the time the screening programmes were established, there has been debate, at times sharply ...
Screening can help find cancer when it is at an early stage. This can make it easier to treat. Screening can give false-negative or false-positive results. This means tests may show you have cancer when you do not, or tests may not show cancer that you do have. Talk with your health...