Does access to prior mammograms improve the performance of radiographers in interpreting screening mammograms?

Introduction: The impact of previous screening mammograms on radiographers' performance in mammography interpretation is unknown. This study assesses the impact that previous screening mammograms has on radiographers' interpretation of mammograms.

Methods: Thirteen Australian radiographers working for the national breast screening service independently interpreted a mammography test-set containing mammograms of 28 women based on the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists' classification.

Mammographic Breast Density at Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Breast Cancer-Specific Survival.

Breast density impacts upon breast cancer risk and recurrence, but its influence on breast cancer-specific survival is unclear. This study examines the influence of mammographic breast density (MBD) at diagnosis on breast cancer-specific survival. The data of 224 patients diagnosed with breast cancer were analyzed.

Diagnostic Efficacy of Five Different Imaging Modalities in the Assessment of Women Recalled at Breast Screening-A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

There are variations in the assessment pathways for women recalled at screening, and the imaging assessment pathway with the best diagnostic outcome is poorly understood. This paper examines the efficacy of five imaging modalities for the assessment of screen-recalled breast lesions. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) strategy was employed to identify studies that assessed the efficacy of imaging modalities in the assessment of lesions recalled at screening from the following eight databases: Medline, Web of Science, Embase, Scopus, Science Direct, PubMed, CINAHL, and Global Health.

Access to prior screening mammograms affects the specificity but not sensitivity of radiologists' performance.

Aims: To establish the impact that access to prior mammograms has on radiologists' performance and the influence of radiologists' characteristics and breast density on their subsequent performance.

Methods: Eight participants independently interpreted 72 digital screening mammograms in two reading sessions using the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologist's classification. In the first reading session, participants were given access to current and prior mammograms.

Does the availability of prior mammograms improve radiologists' observer performance?-a scoping review.

Objective: The objective of this review was to examine the impact of previous mammogram availability on radiologists' performance from screening populations and experimental studies.

Materials And Methods: A search of the literature was conducted using five databases: MEDLINE, PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, and CINAHL as well as Google and reference lists of articles. Keywords were combined with "AND" or "OR" or "WITH" and included "prior mammograms, diagnostic performance, initial images, diagnostic efficacy, subsequent images, previous imaging, and radiologist's performance".

Automated mammographic density measurement using Quantra™: comparison with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology synoptic scale.

This technology evaluation study assesses the limits of agreement between the mammographic density (MD) measurement of Quantra™ from different breasts and mammographic views and its agreement with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) synoptic scale. MD of 800 women was assessed by Quantra™ and seven radiologists using the RANZCR synoptic scale. Bland-Altman analysis was used to assess the limits of agreement between Quantra™ MD measures from both breasts and mammographic views.

Transforming Screening Uptake in Low-resource and Underinformed Populations: A Preliminary Study of Factors Influencing Women's Decisions to Uptake Screening.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the factors influencing women's decision to uptake screening mammography in an underinformed population.

Study Design: The study is a cross-sectional survey of factors influencing screening uptake.

Methods: A modified breast cancer awareness measure was used to assess women's knowledge of breast cancer, mammography, and factors that influence screening uptake.

Diagnostic reference levels for common computed tomography (CT) examinations: results from the first Nigerian nationwide dose survey.

Purpose: To explore doses from common adult computed tomography (CT) examinations and propose national diagnostic reference levels (nDRLs) for Nigeria.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study was approved by the Nnamdi Azikiwe University and University Teaching Hospital Institutional Review Boards (IRB: NAUTH/CS/66/Vol8/84) and involved dose surveys of adult CT examinations across the six geographical regions of Nigeria and Abuja from January 2016 to August 2017. Dose data of adult head, chest and abdomen/pelvis CT examinations were extracted from patient folders.