Mammograms and Clinical Exams for Breast Cancer Produce High Level of False-Positive Results
Harvard Medical SchoolOver a ten-year-period, one out of three women who had screening mammograms and clinical breast exams had abnormal results that required additional testing even though no breast cancer was present, researchers at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School have found. The study of false positives, abnormal results that turn out not to be cancer, is published in the April 16 New England Journal of Medicine.