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Over decade of annual screening, half of women have false-positive ...

As many as half of women who undergo breast-cancer screenings experience a false-positive mammogram result during 10 years of annual ...

Breast Cancer Screening With 3D Mammograms: False-Positive Risk

Even with 3D mammograms, half of women will get false-positive results after 10 years ... One of the biggest hopes for 3D mammograms, the new ...

False positives common in annual mammograms: study - CTV News

A new study shows that after 10 years of annual cancer screening using 3D mammography, nearly half of the patients tested experienced a false-positive ...

High Rate of False-Positives with Annual Mammogram - UCSF

During a decade of receiving mammograms, more than half of cancer-free women will be among those summoned back for more testing because of ...

Study Adds to Debate about Mammography in Older Women

For women in their 70s and older, the risk of overdiagnosis with routine screening mammography is substantial, a new study suggests.

Cumulative Probability of False-Positive Results After 10 Years of ...

New BCSC study estimates half of all women experience false positive mammograms after 10 years of annual screening ... Share: In a new BCSC study ...

3D Mammograms Deliver Fewer False-Positive Findings

For annual screening, the 10-year cumulative probability of at least one false-positive result was lower with DBT versus digital mammography for ...

False-positive results in screening: tomosynthesis not effective enough

A study conducted by UC Davis Health* found that half of all women screened annually with tomosynthesis** experience at least one false-positive ...

Predicting the Cumulative Risk of False-Positive Mammograms | JNCI

Results: Of 9747 screening mammograms, 6.5% were false-positive; 23.8% of women experienced at least one false-positive result. After nine mammograms, the risk ...

Study: False-Positive Mammogram Linked to Higher Risk in Future

Women who received a false-positive mammogram result have a higher risk of breast cancer over the next 20 years, according to a study.

Comparison of cumulative false-positive risk of screening ...

In the United States (US), about one-half of women screened with annual mammography have at least one false-positive test after ten screens. The estimate ...

Mammograms: Facts on 'False Positives' | URMC Newsroom

Ten to 16 percent of women who get screening mammograms are called back for additional testing. Though few of them will end up having cancer ...

After 10 mammograms, half of women can expect a false positive

A new study has found that 50 per cent of women will experience at least one false positive over the course of a decade of breast cancer screenings.

Breast Cancer: Screening - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Nearly half of all women have dense breasts, which increases their ... Potential harms of screening mammography include false-positive results ...

Breast Cancer Risk Assessment and Screening in Average ... - ACOG

The review reported results from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium that noted a 10-year, cumulative false-positive rate of 61% with annual screening and ...

Mammography: The Frightening Risk of False-Positive Results

Summary-A recently published study shows that during a 10-year period, one-third of 2400 women screened for breast cancer had abnormal results that required ...

False-positive mammograms—can the USA learn from Europe?

We estimated that almost half (49%) of women aged 40–69 years will have at least one false-positive mammogram after ten screens. Why was there such a ...

False-Positive Mammogram Result Raises Odds for Breast Cancer ...

Women who receive a false positive mammography result are more likely to develop breast cancer over the subsequent 20 years, ...

Breast Tomosynthesis - Cleveland Clinic

Breast cancer screening detects cancer and saves lives. Mammograms have been the best tool for a long time. When combined with digital breast tomosynthesis, ...

Review - Noel T. Brewer

Screening behavior of women after a false-positive mammogram. ... Psychological distress in U.S. women who have experienced false-positive mammograms.