Influence of mammographic density and compressed breast thickness on true mammographic sensitivity: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the detectability of breast cancer using mammography is important when considering nation-wide screening programmes. Although the role of imaging settings on image quality has been studied extensively, their role in detectability of cancer at a population level is less well studied. We wish to quantify the association between mammographic screening sensitivity and various imaging parameters. Using a novel approach applied to a population-based breast cancer screening cohort, we specifically focus on sensitivity as defined in the classical diagnostic testing literature, as opposed to the screen-detected cancer rate, which is often used as a measure of sensitivity for monitoring and evaluating breast cancer screening. We use a natural history approach to model the presence and

SUBMITTER: Strandberg R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10468499 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature