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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2016 Mar 22;164(10):649–655. doi: 10.7326/M15-0964

Appendix Table 5.

Estimated Frequency of Reference Consensus for Randomly Selected Cases From the U.S. Mammography Screening Population Aged 50-59 y With 1 Slide Interpreted by a Single Pathologist*

Pathologist Interpretation Reference Diagnosis, %
Total, %
Benign Atypia DCIS Invasive Breast Cancer
Benign 97.0 2.1 0.6 0.2 100
Atypia 53.6 37.7 8.7 0 100
DCIS 9.6 9.1 69.4 11.9 100
Invasive breast cancer 1.5 0.1 0.6 97.7 100

DCIS = ductal carcinoma in situ.

*

Values are the probabilities from Table 1 presented as percentages. These calculations can be applied to other populations by substituting the appropriate population prevalence estimates in the bottom row of Appendix Table 3.