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2015 American Society of Preventive Oncology 39th Annual Meeting
Posted March 31, 2015
CMR presented a poster at the 2015 American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) 39th Annual Meeting held in Birmingham, Alabama. The poster titled ‘Digital Screening Mammography Performance by Race’ sought to examine if digital screening mammography performance differs by race in a large population based sample of women in North… Read More »
Performance of Digital Screening Mammography in Older Women
Posted March 31, 2015
Using data from the national Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, CMR researcher Louise Henderson and colleagues examined the performance and outcomes of digital screening mammography among women ages 65 and older. Results of this study were published in December 2014 in Cancer. The researchers found that digital screening mammography specificity, positive… Read More »
Do Mammographic Technologists Affect Radiologists’ Diagnostic Mammography Interpretative Performance?
Posted March 31, 2015
A CMR study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) explores whether the mammographic technologist has an effect on the radiologists’ interpretative performance of diagnostic mammography in community practice. Results from this study demonstrate variation by technologist in the sensitivity, false-positive rate, and positive predictive value of biopsy in… Read More »
The Influence of Mammographic Technologists on Radiologists’ Ability to Interpret Screening Mammograms in Community Practice
Posted January 2, 2015
A CMR study explores whether the mammographic technologist has an effect on the radiologists’ interpretative performance of screening mammography in community practice. Results from this study demonstrate that the technologist has a statistically significant effect on the radiologists’ recall rate, sensitivity, specificity, and cancer detection rate for both screen film… Read More »
2014 American Association for Cancer Research Meeting on Health Disparities
Posted January 2, 2015
CMR presented a poster at the 2014 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting on Health Disparities held in San Antonio, Texas. The poster titled ‘Performance of Digital Diagnostic Mammography by Race’ sought to ascertain if digital diagnostic mammography performance differed among black and white women in the United States…. Read More »
Academy Health 2014 Conference
Posted June 27, 2014
CMR presented a poster at the 2014 Academy Health’s Annual Research Meeting held at the San Diego Convention Center. The poster titled ‘The Effect of the Mammographic Technologist Workforce on Radiologists’ Interpretative Performance of Diagnostic Mammography’ was designed to explore the variability in radiologists’ performance of diagnostic mammography. The data… Read More »
Patterns of Breast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Use in Community Practice
Posted December 11, 2013
A recent Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium study describing patterns of breast MRI use in US community practice found that the use of breast MRI increased from 4.2 per 1000 to 11.5 per 1000 women from 2005 to 2009 (Wernli et al. JAMA Intern Med 2013). Approximately 32% of the breast… Read More »
Collaborating with the BCSC: Guidance for Investigators
Posted December 11, 2013
The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium is accepting proposals from researchers who wish to collaborate on projects looking at the delivery and quality of breast cancer screening as well as the biology of breast cancer.
Breast Density Information Advisory
Posted December 11, 2013
Earlier this fall North Carolina became the 12th state to pass a Breast Density Law (H.B. 467). Effective Jan 1, 2014 mammography providers will be required to notify women who have dense breast tissue and encourage them to discuss this risk factor with their physician.