Current Status of Supplemental Screening in Dense Breasts

Current Status of Supplemental Screening in Dense Breasts.

Currently, 24 American states have laws requiring that women receive some level of notification about breast density with their mammography results. Dense breast tissue can hide cancer on mammography, especially when the cancer lacks calcifications, resulting in delayed diagnosis and worse outcomes. Moreover, dense breast tissue is an independent risk factor for developing breast cancer. Partic...

3D Supine Automated Ultrasound (SAUS, ABUS, ABVS) for Supplemental Screening Women with Dense Breasts.

Supplemental Screening for Breast Cancer in Women With Dense Breasts: A Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

BACKGROUND Screening mammography has lower sensitivity and specificity in women with dense breasts, who experience higher breast cancer risk. PURPOSE To perform a systematic review of reproducibility of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) density categorization and test performance and clinical outcomes of supplemental screening with breast ultrasonography, magnetic resonance i...

Application of the downgrade criteria to supplemental screening ultrasound for women with negative mammography but dense breasts

We investigated whether the application of the downgrade criteria to supplemental screening ultrasound (US) for women with negative mammography but dense breasts can reduce the rate of Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) categories 3 to 4a without a loss of cancer detection.This retrospective study was approved by the Institutional Review Board, and the need to obtain informed co...

Distribution of dense breasts using screening mammography in Korean women: a retrospective observational study

OBJECTIVES This retrospective observational study evaluated the distribution of dense breasts by age group among healthy Korean women. METHODS Participants were women aged 30 years and older who voluntarily underwent screening mammography between January 2007 and December 2011. Women who received the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System for mammographic density of 3 or 4 were defined as h...