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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiol Clin North Am. 2014 Feb 18;52(3):499–518. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2013.11.013

Table 1. Summary of DBT Screening studies.

Author Study Format Number of Patients Callback Rate Reduction Cancer Detection Rate Comments
Skaane et al,6 2013 Interim analysis of prospective reader, modality balanced 12,631 (expect 18,000) 15% decrease (P<.001) 27% increase 40% increase in invasive cancer detection (P<.001)
Rose et al,18 2013 Prospective clinical practice comparing DBT with years prior of DM 9256 DBT screens compared with the prior 2 y of DM DBT recall 5.3% compared with DM-only recall 8.7% (−39.5%; P<.001) DBT cancer detection rate 5.83/1000 compared with DM rate of 3.6/1000 (P = .003) Additional cancers mostly invasive
Haas et al,19 2013 Prospective clinical practice, indirect comparison of patient from one practice with DBT with another practice without DBT Practice of 1602 DBT screens vs practice of 4178 DM DBT recall 7% compared with DM-only recall 10.9% (P<.01) DBT cancer detection rate 5.6/1000 vs DM rate of 3.4/1000 (−35.8%; P = .24) Reduction in recall with DBT largest in patients younger than 50 and/or dense breasts
Conant et al,20 2013 RSNA Clinical practice, prospective comparing DBT with prior year of DM, stable readers 15,633 DBT screens compared with prior year of 10,753 DM 15% reduction in recall (P<.001; odds ratio = .80) Trend of increased cancer detection from 4.4 pre-DBT to 5.48 with DBT (P = .26) There was a statistical significant increase in cancer detected with DBT in women <50 years