PURPOSE The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) was enacted in 1992 to set national standards for high-quality mammography, including standards for mammographic X-ray equipment, patient dose, clinical image quality, and related technical parameters. The MQSA also requires minimum qualifications for radiologic technologists, interpreting physicians and medical physicists, mandates acceptabl...

results strong participation was associated with a younger age, higher educational level, higher incomes, previous history of cancer, previous family history of cancer, one or two prior mammographies, more correct recognitions of mammography, recall rate, and breast cancer risk. if the false-positive result occurred, 83.9%, 81.9% and 77.3% of the women agreed or strongly agreed to participate i...

results the interobserver agreement for sonographic descriptors changed between fair and substantial. the highest agreement was detected for mass orientation (κ=0.66). the lowest agreement was found in the margin (κ=0.33). the interobserver agreement for bi-rads final category was found as fair (κ=0.35). the intraobserver agreement for sonographic descriptors changed between substantial and alm...

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background: a hemangioma is a rather common benign soft tissue tumor that rarely originates from both the pectoralis muscle and the breast. vascular tumors of the breast, such as benign hemangiomas, are rarely seen in men. case presentation: a 40-year-old man presented with a non-tender palpable right breast mass since 6 months ago. on physical examination, a hard lump was detected in the centr...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of stereotactic breast core needle biopsy in a tertiary breast center of tehran university of medical sciences. methods: patients who were candidates for mammography-guided stereotactic breast core biopsy from march 2011 to december 2013 were included in this study. stereotactic biopsy was performed by a dedicated prone hologic m...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Accurately documenting mammography use is essential to assess quality of care for early breast cancer detection in underserved populations. Self-reports and medical record reports frequently result in different accounts of whether a mammogram was performed. We hypothesize that electronic medical records (EMRs) provide more accurate documentation of mammography use than paper...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of the introduction of digital mammography on the recall rate, detection rate, false-positive rate, and rates of invasive procedures in a cohort of women from four population-based breast cancer screening programs in Spain. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was approved by the ethics committee; informed consent was not required. A total of 242,838 mammograms (171,...

BACKGROUND Despite the efficacy of regular mammograms, the incidence and mortality rate of breast cancer have been increasing in China. Insufficient studies on the factors affecting mammography adherence in Chinese married women have been conducted. The purpose of the present study was to explore the factors associated with adherence to guidelines for regular mammography among Chinese married w...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the availability of mammography resources affected breast cancer incidence rates, stage of disease at initial diagnosis, mortality rates and/or mortality-to-incidence ratios throughout Mississippi. METHODS Mammography facilities were geocoded and the numbers of residents residing within a thirty minute drive of a mammography facility were calculated. Other data ...