Recall rate of opportunistic screening mammography in a university referral breast center in Iran
Joint Authors
Alikhassi, Afsaneh
Ahmadinejad, Nasrin
Roozafzai, Farzin
Habibabadi, Zahrah Alikhassy
Akbari, Suna
Rahmani, Maryam
Source
Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal
Issue
Vol. 19, Issue 10 (31 Oct. 2017), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2017-10-31
Country of Publication
United Arab Emirates
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Background: Noinformation has been published on the effectiveness of digital non-diagnostic opportunistic screeningmammography in Iran that is measured by recall rate as one of its indices.
Objectives: In this longitudinal study, we measured recall rate of non-diagnostic mammography at a tertiary referral university hospital and made a comparison with reported international data.
Methods: We examined 9395 digital mammograms performed in 2014 - 2015 from which, 2930 were the first-time and 6465 were subsequent mammography.
The patients were referred to the university hospital by their clinicians during annual check-ups while none of them had any chief complaint.
The mean age was 49 years.
We calculated recall rate, sensitivity, specificity, and cancer detection rate.
Results: Breast cancer was diagnosed in 80 patients.
Recall rateswere 29% for the first-time and 22% for subsequentmammography, and the overall rate of cancer incidence was 8.5 per 1000 mammograms (80/9395) with specificity of 75.9%, sensitivity of 97.5%, PPV of 3.4%, and NPV of 99%.
Conclusions: The recall rate was much higher in this setting than the acceptable range reported in literature.
However, the sensitivity and detection rate were higher; thus, the higher recall rate could be due to some differences in the patient population such as being at younger ages and higher risks
American Psychological Association (APA)
Alikhassi, Afsaneh& Rahmani, Maryam& Ahmadinejad, Nasrin& Akbari, Suna& Roozafzai, Farzin& Habibabadi, Zahrah Alikhassy. 2017. Recall rate of opportunistic screening mammography in a university referral breast center in Iran. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal،Vol. 19, no. 10, pp.1-7.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Alikhassi, Afsaneh…[et al.]. Recall rate of opportunistic screening mammography in a university referral breast center in Iran. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal Vol. 19, no. 10 (Oct. 2017), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Alikhassi, Afsaneh& Rahmani, Maryam& Ahmadinejad, Nasrin& Akbari, Suna& Roozafzai, Farzin& Habibabadi, Zahrah Alikhassy. Recall rate of opportunistic screening mammography in a university referral breast center in Iran. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. 2017. Vol. 19, no. 10, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-805508
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 6-7
Record ID
BIM-805508