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Additional mammogram review improves cancer detection

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Breast cancer treatment is significantly more successful when the disease is discovered early. However, sometimes radiologists miss the small early signs of an abnormality. Dr. Lucien E.M. Duijm from Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and his colleagues examined whether adding readings by technologists to the standard double readings by radiologists might help increase cancer detection rates. As reported in the Aug. 1 issue of Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 21 technologists and eight radiologists read 61,251 mammograms of women aged 50 to 75 who were screened...Read full article

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    Published: September 2007
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