Film mammography for breast cancer screening in younger women is no longer appropriate because of the demonstrated superiority of digital mammography for this age group

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3979-3982

  Yaffe, Martin J ^a   Barnes, Gary T ^b   Orton, Colin G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; BREAST CANCER SCREENING; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FACILITATED COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; X RAY FILM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 33750559611     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2218313     Document Type: Review

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