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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Henderson, Louise M.
• Benefield, Thad
• Nyante, Sarah J.
• Marsh, Mary W.
• Greenwood-Hickman, Mikael Anne
• Schroeder, Bruce F.

Titel

Performance of digital screening mammography in a population-based cohort of black and white women

Ist Teil von

• Cancer causes & control, 2015-10, Vol.26 (10), p.1495-1499

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Purpose: There is scarce information on whether digital screening mammography performance differs between black and white women. Methods: We examined 256,470 digital screening mammograms performed from 2005 to 2010 among 31,654 black and 133,152 white Carolina Mammography Registry participants aged ≥40 years. We compared recall rate, sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value (PPV₁) between black and white women, adjusting for potential confounders using random effects logistic regression. Results: Breast cancer was diagnosed in 276 black and 1,095 white women. Recall rates were similar for blacks and whites (8.6 vs. 8.5 %), as were sensitivity (83.7 vs. 82.4 %), specificity (91.8 vs. 91.9 %), and PPV₁ (4.8 vs. 5.3 %) (all p values >0.05). Stratified and adjusted models showed similar results. Despite comparable mammography performance, tumors diagnosed in black women were more commonly poorly differentiated and hormone receptor negative. Conclusion: Equivalent performance of digital screening mammography by race suggests that efforts to understand tumor disparities should focus on etiologic factors that influence tumor biology.