Single-View Mammography Screening

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Abstract
In 1974, screening trials indicated that both the sensitivity and specificity of single-view mammography are high. During the subsequent 3 yr, 11 cases of breast carcinoma have been detected in the study population of 6845 women aged 40 or older. The average incidence was 3 cases per yr, compared to the expected rate of 8.9. The age-adjusted incidence rate in 1975, the year after screening, was 55.4 per 100,000, which is 40% of the expected rate of 140. In 1976 it was 75.9, or 54% of the expected rate of 141. Single-view mammography is an efficient screening method, at least in the subject population described.

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