Breast screening: Digital mammography no good than film
Australia: The transition from film to digital mammography did not result in health benefits for screened women, a recent study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has revealed.
According to the study, the increase in the detection of cancer following the shift to digital mammography did not lead to a reduction in the interval cancer rate. Moreover, recall rates also increased.
Breast screening programs replaced film mammography with digital mammography. The effects of this practice shift in screening on health outcomes can be measured through an examination of interval cancer and cancer detection rates.
Rachel Farber, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and colleagues undertook a systematic review and random-effects meta-analysis. even databases were searched for publications that compared film to digital mammography within the same population of asymptomatic women and reported cancer detection and/or interval cancer rates. A total of 24 studies with 16,583,743 screening examinations (10,968,843 film and 5,614,900 digital) were included.
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