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2American Cancer Society Statistics show that about 13% (about 1 in 8) of U.S. women are going to develop invasive breast cancer in the course of their life, www.breastcancer.org/facts-statistics (July 2023).
3American Cancer Society; https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/screening-tests-and-early-detection/mammograms/breast-density-and-your-mammogram-report.html
4University of Oxford https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-06-13-women-diagnosed-early-breast-cancer-today-are-much-less-likely-die-disease-20-years (June 2023; American Cancer Society: https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/understanding-a-breast-cancer-diagnosis/breast-cancer-survival-rates.html
5Compared to grid-based acquisition with Mammomat Inspiration, depending on breast thickness - L.B. Larsen, A. Fieselmann, H. Pfaff, T. Mertelmeier Performance of grid-less digital mammography acquisition technique for breast screening: analysis of 22,117 examinations Presentation B-1025 ECR 2015.
6"The National Cancer Institute's Fact Sheet on Mammograms." National Cancer Institute. Accessed from https://www.cancer.gov/types/breast/mammograms-fact-sheet."
7Maldera et al. (2016): Digital breast tomosynthesis: Dose and image quality assessment. Physica Medica, pp. 1-12
8Compared to FFDM; PMA P140011/S001 & P140011/S003; Georgian et al. (2019): Can Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Replace Full-Field Digital Mammography? A Multireader, Multicase Study of Wide-Angle Tomosynthesis. AJR 2019, pp. 1-7. doi.org/10.2214/AJR.18.20294
9Mann, R. M., Cho, N., & Moy, L. (2019). Breast MRI: state of the art. Radiology, 292(3), 520–536. https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2019182947
10The Lancet, Volume 378, Issue 9804, 12–18 November 2011, Pages 1707-1716, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673611616292
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