Comparison of Screening Mammography in the United States and the United Kingdom
JAMAPublished 22 October 2003
Rebecca Smith‐Bindman
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Recall and negative open surgical biopsy rates are twice as high in US settings than in the United Kingdom but cancer detection rates are similar; efforts to improve US mammographic screening should target lowering the recall rate without reducing the cancer detection rate.
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Recall and negative open surgical biopsy rates are twice as high in US settings than in the United Kingdom but cancer detection rates are similar. Efforts to improve US mammographic screening should target lowering the recall rate without reducing the cancer detection rate.
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