Tag: Mammography

Among women with Medicare insurance, Black women less likely than White women to receive digital versus screen-film mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis

Cancer detection rate, recall rate, and positive predictive value similar for radiologists, trained radiographers as first readers

Sensitivity increased for subgroups with small lesion sizes, invasive carcinomas

Invasive cancer detection rates, positive predictive values highest for non-Hispanic Whites, lowest for Hispanics

Multilevel factors examined for differences in time from abnormal screening mammogram to biopsy by race, ethnicity

Digital breast tomosynthesis linked to lower risk of advanced breast cancer for women with extremely dense breasts, high risk for breast cancer

While mammography, biopsies, and cancer diagnoses are up from 2020 lows, none have reached pre-COVID-19 volumes

Performance of AI system for detecting breast cancers promising in setting of large population-based mammography screening program

Elevated risk also seen for benign breast disease and fatty breasts and extremely dense breasts without benign breast disease

Axillary lymphadenopathy more likely within 14 days after vaccination; persistent axillary lymphadenopathy seen up to 43 weeks later