Two Different Breast Cancer Screening Strategies Are Equally Effective, Study Fiinds

Friday, August 1, 2008 - 21:28 in Health & Medicine

An organized population-based breast cancer screening program in Norway and an approach to screening that relies on physician- and self-referrals in Vermont are equally sensitive for detecting cancer, researchers report in the July 29 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. But the recall rate for abnormal mammograms was lower in Norway.

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