Adding ultrasound screening to mammography brings benefits, risk...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Mon, 05/12/2008 - 23:00

(Brown University) Results from a major clinical trial show that adding a screening ultrasound examination to routine mammography reveals more breast cancers than mammography alone -- but also increases the rates of false positive findings.

The American College of Radiology Imaging Net-work, whose biostatistics center is located at Brown University, conducted the study and reported the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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