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. 2014 Sep 26;25(3):850–859. doi: 10.1007/s00330-014-3431-3

Table 3.

Rates of screen-detected cancers, interval cancers, false positives and accuracy measures by study period

Screening mammograms Screen-detected cancers Interval cancers Recall rate False-positives Sensitivity Specificity Positive predictive value
n % n % n % n %
1st SFM period 20,760 86 0.41 27 0.13 1,225 5.90 1,026 4.94 76.11 95.03 7.73
2nd SFM period 20,757 72 0.35 21 0.10 1,132 5.45 970 4.67 77.42 95.31 6.91
3rd SFM period 20,729 102 0.49 39 0.19 1,186 5.72 1,039 5.01 72.34 94.95 8.94
4th SFM period 20,714 85 0.41 27 0.13 1,084 5.23 934 4.51 75.89 95.47 8.34
1st FFDM period 19,733 81 0.41 42 0.21 815 4.13 678 3.44 65.85 96.54 10.67
2nd FFDM period 19,760 91 0.46 27 0.14 960 4.86 800 4.05 77.12 95.93 10.21
3rd FFDM period 19,780 80 0.40 22 0.11 750 3.79 594 3.00 78.43 96.98 11.87
4th FFDM period 19,701 87 0.44 21 0.11 788 4.00 600 3.05 80.56 96.94 12.66