One-year mammography follow-up falls short

July 1, 2008 Diagnostic Imaging. One-year mammography follow-up falls short ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women with diagnostic mammograms flagged as probably benign usually undergo short-interval follow-up. But at 12 months, this second look may not boost cancer detection. Erin Aiello Bowles, a research associate at the Group Health Center for Health Studies in Seattle, and colleagues at several U.S. institutions evaluated the accuracy of short-interval follow-up using data from the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.

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