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High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive ...

Women who received false-positive mammography results were less likely to return for future screenings. Researchers analyzed more than three million screening mammograms from more than one million ...

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Clinicians should continue to counsel patients that false-positive results are an expected outcome of screening mammography. Age and breast density should be factored in when deciding the frequency of ...

Overall, the findings suggest that a shift away from one-size-fits-all mammography toward personalized screening schedules ...

A study led by UC Davis Health has found that half of all women will experience at least one false positive mammogram over a decade of annual breast cancer screening with digital breast tomosynthesis ...

Women who received false-positive mammography results were less likely to return for screening, especially if they received recommendations for short-interval follow-up or biopsy, according to a study ...