Is digital mammography better than film screen mammography in detecting breast cancer?
- The Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) is an ACRIN-sponsored prospective multicenter trial that compares digital mammography with film screen mammography in size.
- For the study, about 49,000 women were included.
- Overall, the study demonstrated that digital mammography’s accuracy in the general population was comparable to that of film screen mammography.
- Digital mammography, however, outperformed film screen mammography in some subpopulations, such as women under 50, women with breasts that are heterogeneously or highly thick, and women who are premenopausal or perimenopausal.
