Mammogram accuracy

December 12, 2007

Apparently, it varies by radiologist:

They found that sensitivity — the ability to accurately detect cancer — ranged from 27 percent to 100 percent. False positives ranged from 0 to 16 percent.

Those are some pretty big ranges.



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{ 1 comment }

1 Lisa December 12, 2007 at 10:21 pm

Not surprising! As an MRI frequent-flyer I can tell you that as many times as one scan is read are the differing results reported.

Very comforting.

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