One-year mammographic follow-up recommendations fall short

May 28, 2008 One-year mammographic follow-up recommendations fall short Shalmali Pal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Short-interval follow-up is most often suggested for women whose diagnostic mammograms are flagged as probably benign. But this second look at 12 months has a low sensitivity for detecting cancer, according to a study in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Erin Aiello Bowles and colleagues at several U.S. institutions evaluated the accuracy of short-interval follow-up using data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium. Bowles is a research associate at the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle. Her coauthors included Bonnie Yankaskas, Ph.D., a professor of radiology and principal investigator for the Carolina Mammography Registry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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