Murray Rebner

TL;DR: 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.

TL;DR: Digital mammography did, however, perform significantly better than the film method in women less than 50 years of age, in those having heterogeneously dense or very dense breasts, and premenopausal or perimenopausal women.

TL;DR: Digital mammography performed significantly better than film for pre- and perimenopausal women younger than 50 years with dense breasts, but film tended nonsignificantly to perform better for women aged 65 years or older with fatty breasts.

TL;DR: Lesions in 17% of patients with LCIS or ALH at CNB were upgraded to invasive cancer or DCIS; this rate was similar to the upgrade rate in patients with ADH, andcisional biopsy is supported when LCIS, ALH, or ADH is diagnosed at CNBs.

TL;DR: The ACRIN conducted the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) primarily to compare the diagnostic accuracy of digital and screen-film mammography in asymptomatic women presenting for screening for breast cancer.