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Individual and combined effects of age, breast density, and hormone replacement therapy use on the accuracy of screening mammography.
Patricia A. Carney,Diana L. Miglioretti,Bonnie C. Yankaskas,Karla Kerlikowske,Robert D. Rosenberg,Carolyn M. Rutter,Berta M. Geller,Linn Abraham,Steven H. Taplin,Mark Dignan,Gary Cutter,Rachel Ballard-Barbash +11 more
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The accuracy of screening mammography is best in older women and in women with fatty breasts, and the individual and combined effects of age, breast density, and HRT use on mammographic accuracy are examined.Abstract:
Mammographic breast density and age are important predictors of the accuracy of screening mammography. Although use of hormone replacement therapy is not an independent predictor of accuracy, it pr...read more
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Influence of Estrogen Plus Progestin on Breast Cancer and Mammography in Healthy Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial
Rowan T. Chlebowski,Susan L. Hendrix,Robert Langer,Marcia L. Stefanick,Margery Gass,Dorothy S. Lane,Rebecca J. Rodabough,Mary Ann Gilligan,Michele G. Cyr,Cynthia A. Thomson,Janardan D. Khandekar,Helen Petrovitch,Anne McTiernan +12 more
TL;DR: Relatively short-term combined estrogen plus progestin use increases incident breast cancers, which are diagnosed at a more advanced stage compared with placebo use, and also substantially increases the percentage of women with abnormal mammograms, a pattern which continued for the study duration.
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Diagnostic Performance of Digital versus Film Mammography for Breast-Cancer Screening
Etta D. Pisano,Constantine Gatsonis,Edward Hendrick,Martin J. Yaffe,Janet K. Baum,Suddhasatta Acharyya,Emily F. Conant,Laurie L. Fajardo,Lawrence W. Bassett,Roberta A. Jong,Murray Rebner +10 more
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.
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Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
TL;DR: The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the benefits and harms of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) as a primary screening method for breast cancer.
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Diagnostic accuracy of mammography, clinical examination, US, and MR imaging in preoperative assessment of breast cancer.
Wendie A. Berg,Lorena Gutierrez,Moriel S. NessAiver,W. Bradford Carter,Mythreyi Bhargavan,Rebecca S. Lewis,Olga B. Ioffe +6 more
TL;DR: In nonfatty breasts, US and MR imaging were more sensitive than mammography for invasive cancer, but both MR imaging and US involved risk of overestimation of tumor extent.
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Limitations of the Odds Ratio in Gauging the Performance of a Diagnostic, Prognostic, or Screening Marker
TL;DR: An illustration of the relation between odds ratios and receiver operating characteristic curves shows, for example, that a marker with an odds ratio of as high as 3 is in fact a very poor classification tool.
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Quantitative Classification of Mammographic Densities and Breast Cancer Risk: Results From the Canadian National Breast Screening Study
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TL;DR: Increases in the level of breast tissue density as assessed by mammography are associated with increases in risk for breast cancer, and these results show that increases in theLevel of breast cancer risk associated with increasing mammographic density is shown.