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New technology reduces accuracy of mammograms, study finds.
Byline: Marie McCullough
PHILADELPHIA _ Computer software designed to improve radiologists' interpretation of mammograms actually reduces their accuracy, resulting in more re-testing and biopsies that find no breast cancer, a major new study concludes.
The surprising findings belatedly cast doubt on the value of "compter-aided detection," a nine-year-old technology that has been widely adopted and touted as the coming standard in breast cancer screening.
Joshua J. Fenton, lead author of the report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, said more than a quarter of the nation's mammography facilities have invested up to $240,000 each to add computer-aided detection. Many Philadelphia-area centers now have it.
"Should it continue to be used? The answer isn't clear, but I think it's an important question," said Fenton, a physician specializing in public health and epidemiology at the University of California Davis Health System in Sacramento. "If we know this doesn't improve cancer detection, I think it would be unethical to offer…
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