A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute provides that physicians reading mammograms miss an average of 2 in every 10 cases of breast cancer even for women with lumps and other reported symptomatology. The researchers also found a wide variation in radiologists’ ability to detect cancer in plain film radiographs with some missing as many as 7 in 10 cases. The study examined the performance of 123 radiologists who interpreted nearly 36,000 diagnostic mammograms from 1996 to 2003 at 72 facilities in the United States. The researchers found that sensitivity ranged from 27 percent to 100 percent with a median of 79 percent and a false positive rate ranging from zero to 16 percent with a median of 4.3 percent.
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