US women's attitudes to false positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine women's attitudes to and knowledge of both false positive mammography results and the detection of ductal carcinoma in situ after screening mammography.

Design

Cross sectional survey.

Setting

United States.

Participants

479 women aged 18-97 years who did not report a history of breast cancer.

Main outcome measures

Attitudes to and knowledge of false positive results and the detection of ductal carcinoma in situ after screening mammography.

Results

Women were aware that false positive results do occur. Their median estimate of the false positive rate for 10 years of annual screening was 20% (25th percentile estimate, 10%; 75th percentile estimate, 45%). The women were highly tolerant of false positives: 63% thought that 500 o

SUBMITTER: Schwartz LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27408 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature