Published in:
01-01-2008 | Review
Full-field digital mammography compared with screen-film mammography in the detection of breast cancer: rays of light through DMIST or more fog?
Authors:
Jeffrey A. Tice, Mitchell D. Feldman
Published in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Issue 2/2008
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Excerpt
Breast cancer is the most common malignancy and second most common cause of cancer death in women in the US [
1]. To date, screen-film mammography (SFM) has been considered the gold standard for breast cancer screening and detection [
1]. Over 70% of women in the US over the age of 40 have had a mammogram within the past 2 years [
2]. Prior research has investigated the efficacy of SFM at reducing mortality from breast cancer [
3‐
17]. While the interpretation of these results has been hotly debated [
18‐
25], the consensus in recent systematic reviews and practice guidelines is that SFM reduces breast cancer mortality among women who are 50–75 years of age, and may reduce mortality among women aged 40 years and older [
26‐
30]. A series of complex models supports the hypothesis that SFM has contributed to a reduction in breast cancer mortality in the US [
31]. …