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Breast ultrasound should not routinely be added to mammography, Cochrane says

Miriam Davis   |   Clinical Summary   |   13 April 2023
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Takeaway

  • The Cochrane Collaborative concludes that breast ultrasound should not routinely be added to mammography for breast cancer screening.
  • The best evidence, according to its review of the medical literature, is that only two more cancers per 1,000 are detected with combination ultrasound+mammography (vs mammography alone) at the expense of...

          

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