Classifying interval cancers
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Breast screening: What can the interval cancer review teach us? Are we perhaps being a bit too hard on ourselves?
2017, European Journal of RadiologyCitation Excerpt :False negative (suspicious) (An abnormality is clearly visible and warrants assessment) [4]. The interval cancer review is a valuable educational tool for film readers as well as a quality assurance process, although the process by which it happens differs between centres, causing variations in the incidence of true interval cancers [5]. The aim of this study was to determine the features that make interval cancers apparent on the preceding screening mammogram and to determine whether changes in the ways of performing the interval cancer review will affect the true interval cancer rate.
Film reading in the East Midlands Breast Screening Programme - Are we missing opportunities for earlier diagnosis?
2014, Clinical RadiologyCitation Excerpt :This detailed monitoring of the programme should prospectively translate into fewer FN interval cancers as diagnostic work-up at assessment comes under greater scrutiny. Interval cancer classification involves a degree of subjectivity due to the method of review, the number of readers involved, and tolerances required to agree a radiological categorization.9,10 Combining radiological categories 2 (uncertain) and 3 (suspicious) gives a similar outcome.
Interval breast cancers: Absolute and proportional incidence and blinded review in a community mammographic screening program
2014, European Journal of RadiologyInterval Breast Cancer
2009, The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant DiseasesInterval breast cancers in screening: The effect of mammography review method on classification
2007, BreastCitation Excerpt :Our study differs in the design we used, which allowed us to compare phases of increasing extent of information, and to quantify relative differences in classification of interval cases. A similar study design was used by Duncan and Wallis,10 but that study failed to demonstrate increasing false negative rate when comparing blinded (IC only) to informed review with knowledge of cancer side, site and pattern. The aim of blinded review with interval cases seeded in a screen negative series is to reproduce screening conditions where cancer prevalence is very low and may (in addition to fatigue, loss of attention) lead to a false negative report.
Radiological surveillance of interval breast cancers in screening programmes
2006, Lancet OncologyCitation Excerpt :Standardisation of the classification of interval breast cancers can be difficult because it is affected by the methodology of the review process13,16–22 and is inherently subjective. Three factors are especially important.15–22 First, the extent to which the review process is done in an informed or masked manner; ie, whether reviewers are aware that they are looking at screens that include interval breast cancers, and whether they are reviewing individually identified cases.