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Breast tomosynthesis: a fine balance between benefits and harms in breast cancer screening

Meagan E Brennan
Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): . || doi: 10.5694/mja2.50359
Published online: 21 October 2019

Many questions need to be discussed before 3D‐mammography is adopted for standard screening

In this issue of the MJA, Houssami and colleagues report the first prospective trial of breast tomosynthesis screening in the Australian BreastScreen program. They found that tomosynthesis has a higher cancer detection rate (CDR) than standard mammography; the trade‐offs were a higher recall rate, higher radiation dose, and longer reading time.1

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