Erschienen in:
01.10.2009 | Poster presentation
Breast cancers missed by the arbitration process
verfasst von:
CM Lee, L McLean, A O'Brien
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 2/2009
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Excerpt
In our institution double reading of screening mammo-grams with arbitration by consensus was introduced in January 2000. Discordant double reading opinions are discussed at a weekly arbitration meeting that all screen readers attend and a decision is made as to whether the patient should be recalled to assessment or returned to routine screening. To date, there is little known about the outcome of arbitrated cases that are returned to routine screening. We aim to identify the number of breast cancer cases that subsequently developed at the arbitrated site that were returned to routine screening at the arbitration meeting and to determine the mammographic and pathological features of these cancers. …