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Funny. The original article says "The findings of this study suggest that digital breast tomosynthesis is associated with a lower cumulative probability of fal
by stewbrew 5y ago
Funny. The original article says
"The findings of this study suggest that digital breast tomosynthesis is associated with a lower cumulative probability of false-positive results compared with digital mammography"
Which is an important finding since today such screenings rely on digital mammography. So, tomography is good.
For whatever reason, the cited article turns this upside down into:
"Half of all women getting 3D mammograms will experience a false positive over a decade of annual screening"
Which suggests that tomography performs really bad.
If you do a mammography screening every two years, you do 5 mammographies in 10 years. With a false positive, you do 5 and an MRI. So what. Doctors should always tell their patients that a positive screening mammography doesn't necessarily imply they actually have cancer.