ARRS: DBT leads to less recalls among African American women

African American women are more likely to be recalled from a 2D digital mammography exam than from a digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) exam, a study presented May 7 at the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) annual meeting found. In her talk, Brielle Paolini, MD, PhD, from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) discussed her team’s results, which also showed that Caucasian women are more likely to be recalled from DBT exams. She also reported that architectural distortions and masses are more likely to be recalled from screening via DBT. “Asymmetries were less likely to be recalled from screening via a DBT exam,” Paolini added. While breast cancer mortality has declined in the past three decades since the widespread implementation of screening mammography, racial disparities in this area persist. African American women have a near-40% higher breast cancer mortality than Caucasian women and tend to be diagnosed with more advanced disease. And while previous studies have highlighted that DBT leads to lower recall rates and improved cancer detection over conventional digital mammography, Paolini pointed out that women in minority populations are less likely to have access to the technology. Paolini and colleagues conducted an institutional review with mammographic data collected between 2012 and 2020. They reviewed these data for mammographic findings, patient follow-up, cancer detection, breast cancer risk, and demographic variables such as age and race.Re...
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