"We don't know why the observed pattern occurred," said Dr. Taksler. "False-positives are a limitation of the technology that we use to check for cancer. Hopefully, over time, the technology will improve so that patients don't have to deal with as many false-positives." He noted that...
The conventional medical establishment is notorious for overlooking these risks, which include X-ray radiation exposure, false positive diagnoses, and overdiagnosis and its corrollary overtreatment. In fact, over a decade ago, it was estima...
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False-positive mammograms are common in women with dense breasts and also in women who has benign tumors, calcium deposits, thick skin, newly retracted nipples, or suspicious lymph nodes. Some studies suggest that women with these characteristics have an increased risk of breast cancer. However,...
Breast cancerConventional ultrasonographyElastographyMargin statusMisdiagnosis mammography resultsFake-negative results of mammography have been related to the delayed diagnosis and worse outcomes of patients with breast cancer in dense breasts, for which supplemental ultrasound screening has become the mainstay...
From the internal test set, we constructed a reader study subset by selecting 663 exams (644 patients, 1024 breasts). Among the exams selected for this study, 73 breasts had pathology-proven cancer, 535 breasts had a biopsy yielding exclusively benign findings, and 416 breasts were not biopsied...
Intradermal blue dye to identify sentinel lymph node in breast cancer. By - Armando E Giuliano AE Giuliano - 《Lancet》 被引量: 649发表: 1997年 Ultrasound mammography for the augmented breast. Ultrasound examinations were performed on 25 women with augmented breasts using whole-breast water-path ...
OBJECTIVES: To quantify the effect of previous false-positive mammogram results on rescreening rates in a population of women participating in the BreastSc... MJH Sim,SP Siva,IS Ramli,... - 《Med J Aust》 被引量: 13发表: 2012年
Methods and Workflow Design for Improving Specificity of Breast Mr In a breast imaging method, magnetic resonance data are acquired of one or both breasts of a subject () using a breast coil (鈥 ) coupled with said one or both breasts. The acquiring employs at least four independent channels...
Nowadays, it is the main tool for breast cancer screening. However, mammography still has drawbacks. It is limited with regards to dense breasts, it lacks precise localization, very small tumors are harder to detect, and it is not suitable for patients younger than 40 [5,6,7,8,9]. ...