Digital Mammography Better Than Film for Some Women

By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter
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TUESDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- For some women, digital mammography is a better bet than traditional film mammography, a new study confirms.

Women under the age 50 with dense breasts who are premenopausal or perimenopausal get more accurate results with digital mammograms, said study author Dr. Etta Pisano, the Kenan professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina, in Chapel Hill.

Pisano was the principal investigator for a landmark study published in 2005, known as DMIST, that compared digital to film mammography for all women.

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