and since then both mammography technology and breast cancer treatment have improved substantially, raising questions as to whether the randomized clinical trial data may underestimate or overestimate the real benefit of mammography in today’s context, a point emphasized in the systematic review accompany...
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VJ: Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Approved the final manuscript. Declaration of competing interest None. Acknowledgements This research was conducted within the project “PREVENT - Social inequalities in cancer prevention care and ...
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Daniel Kopans, MD, was one of the experts called upon in 1990 to review the quality of the mammograms. He has publicly stated that the quality was poor.8 The images were compromised by scatter artifact, and the breasts were not uniformly positioned in the x-ray machines. The CNBSS’s ...
Text Multiple US organizations have issued guidelines about screening for breast cancer, second only to lung cancer as the deadliest malignancy in women. Although there is no consensus among these groups, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)new recommendation statement, recently published in...
Using the detailed input cap- ture and review capabilities of Mimic (Breslav et al., 2014), we can see that it was likely an error when at- tempting to enter a denominator value of "1000" since the user actually typed in three zeroes, not just one. This record was excluded from the...
The study was institutional review board exempt. An online survey was sent to members of the Society of Breast Imaging in June 2018. Questions included practice information, utilization of DBT and SM, perception of change in recall rates (RRs) and cancer detection rates (CDRs) with SM-DBT ...
Review of the literature revealed only two previous publica- tions addressing the development and validation of screening tools comparable with the RST. These include the FHAT used in this study37 and the pedigree assessment tool (PAT) of Hoskins et al.47 The FHAT was validated by actual ...
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