A randomised trial of screening with digital breast tomosynthesis plus conventional digital 2D mammography versus 2D mammography alone in younger higher risk women.

TLDR: The addition of DBT to 2D mammography in incident screening did not lead to a significant reduction in recall rate, and DBT may increase reader uncertainty until DBT screening experience is acquired.

About: This article is published in European Journal of Radiology.The article was published on 2017-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 9 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mammography & Breast cancer.

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Table 4. Number of women in each centre who underwent prevalent screening and number recalled for further assessment.

Table 3. Number of examinations reported abnormal by one or both readers but the woman was not recalled for assessment following consensus/arbitration.

Table 2. Percentage of women undergoing false positive recall in each of the centres and overall, including 95% confidence intervals.

Table 1. Number of women in each centre who underwent incident screening with each modality (by intention to treat) and number who underwent false positive (FP) recall in each of the two screening rounds within the study together with numbers of cancers detected.

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Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "A randomised trial of screening with digital breast tomosynthesis plus conventional digital 2d mammography versus 2d mammography alone in younger higher risk women" ?

Maxwell et al. this paper compared the performance of digital breast tomosynthesis ( DBT ) and conventional full-field digital mammography ( FFDM ) for women aged 40-49.