Diagnostic Performance of Digital versus Film Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening

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Authors

Etta D. Pisano · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Constantine Gatsonis · Brown University

Edward Hendrick · University of Toronto

Martin J. Yaffe · University of Toronto

Janet K. Baum · Hadassah Medical Center

Suddhasatta Acharyya · Brown University

Emily F. Conant ·

Abstract

The overall diagnostic accuracy of digital and film mammography as a means of screening for breast cancer is similar, but digital mammography is more accurate in women under the age of 50 years, women with radiographically dense breasts, and premenopausal or perimenopausal women. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00008346.)

Topics & Keywords

AI in cancer detection Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 353, Issue 17, pp. 1773-1783

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa052911

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