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 |