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Film Mammography Still Best Breast Cancer Screen.
WASHINGTON -- Standard film mammography remains the preferred method for breast cancer screening, according to a report issued by the Institute of Medicine.
"Although many of the newer [breast cancer screening] tools offer certain advantages and deserve to be studied further, film mammography remains the gold standard for screening against which new imaging technologies must be measured," Dr. Joyce C. Lashof, an author of the report, said at a press briefing on breast cancer sponsored by the National Academies.
Clinical trials have shown that mammographic screening reduces breast cancer mortality rates by 25%-30% for women aged 50-70 and 16%-18% for women aged 40-49, according to the 227-page report.
Still, problems with the technology remain. It doesn't detect all cancers, including some that are palpable, and as many as 75% of all lesions that are seen on mammograms and biopsied turn out to be benign.
Other imaging technologies outlined in the report are already in use as adjuncts to mammography and may be especially beneficial to certain women, said Dr. Lashof, chair of the 17-member National Academies Committee on Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer, which wrote the report.
For example, ultrasound and MRI may be of value in screening women who have extremely dense breasts or have undergone a previous lumpectomy, she commented.
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