May 15, 2008 — In women at high risk for breast cancer, screening with ultrasound in addition to mammography increases the hit rate. The large American College of Radiation Imagining Network (ACRIN) ...

By using sound waves instead of radiation, ultrasound can uncover subtle abnormalities that mammography may overlook.

Mammography is still the best method for early detection of breast cancer, but it can still miss some tumors. Breast ultrasound in addition to mammography can detect more cancers in high-risk women, ...

Adding ultrasound to mammography finds more cancers than mammography alone, but also substantially increases the number of false positives, according to first-year results from a three-year study of ...

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The diagnostic yield for mammography was 7.6 cancers per 1,000 women screened (20/2,637); 31 cancers were diagnosed in 2,637 participants by the combination of mammography plus ultrasound, producing a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of ultrasound appeared to detect breast cancer at a rate comparable to mammography, with greater ...

Adding ultrasound improved detection but led to more false-positives. Screening mammography lowers breast cancer mortality by 15% to 20%. Ultrasound detects breast cancer that is missed by mammography ...

Digital breast tomosynthesis (quasi three-dimensional [3D] mammography) is a relatively novel technique. It creates thin-slice reconstructions of the breast from low-dose digital mammographic images ...

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Adding ultrasound to mammography finds more cancers than mammography alone, but also substantially increases the number of false positives, according to first-year results from a three-year study of ...