Mammography reading: ideas for personal audit
The emphasis of mammography reader training is, understandably, on breast cancer. What we don’t focus on so much is reducing recall rates. Cancer is detected in around eight per 1,000 of our screening mammograms, yet routinely we call back 50 per 1,000 or more. This is largely unavoidable – the task is very difficult. But […]
Dr Jim Steel
Derriford Hospital