Digital Mammography Proves Superior for Younger Women
Digital mammography was significantly more accurate in detecting premenopausal breast cancer than traditional film-based mammography, researchers reported today on the basis of a study of nearly 50,000 women.
In the study, which was funded by the National Cancer Institute, digital mammography performed significantly better than film mammography among women younger than 50 years compared with those who were at least 50 (P=0.002).
Moreover, digital mammography was more accurate than film mammography among women with heterogeneously dense or extremely dense breasts (P=0.003).
The results were reported this morning at the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) meeting here by Etta D. Pisano, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for colleagues of the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST). Concurrently, the results were published online by The New England Journal of Medicine. more