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Sophia Zackrisson

Research group manager, Principal investigator, Professor, MD, PhD

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Breast Cancer Screening With Tomosynthesis-Initial Experiences

Author

  • Anders Tingberg
  • Daniel Förnvik
  • Sören Mattsson
  • Tony Svahn
  • Pontus Timberg
  • Sophia Zackrisson

Summary, in English

Experiences gained so far using tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening will be reported. A short summary of results from preparatory studies will also be presented. The sensitivity and specificity of breast tomosynthesis (BT) will be compared with conventional two-dimensional digital mammography (DM) for breast cancer screening in a population-based study. Over 2000 women have been examined so far with BT and DM. The BT reading is significantly more time-consuming than the DM reading. Preparatory studies have shown that BT has a higher diagnostic precision and higher accuracy of size measurements and stage determination than DM. There is potential to use lower compression force with BT compared with DM, without decreasing the diagnostic accuracy. BT might play an important role in clinical as well as screening mammography. A large-scale population-based study to investigate BT as a screening modality is underway.

Department/s

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
  • Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

180-183

Publication/Series

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volume

147

Issue

1-2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Radiology and Medical Imaging

Status

Published

Research group

  • Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö
  • Radiology Diagnostics, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1742-3406