US experts dismiss "badly flawed" Canadian breast cancer screening study
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
US radiology experts have criticised a Canadian study that concluded that adding an annual mammogram to physical examination for breast cancer screening does not reduce deaths. "This study is badly flawed because it is based on poor quality mammograms that were read by radiologist with no specific training in mammography and because of the basic design of the study," claimed the American College of Radiology (ACR), the principal organisation of radiologist, radiation oncologists and clinical medical physicists in the US.