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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: MATERIALS AND METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Breast Neoplasms, Clinical Competence, Decision Making, Female, Humans, Mammography, Mass Screening, Medical Staff, Hospital, Retrospective Studies, Sensitivity and Specificity, Technology, Radiologic.
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Can radiographers read screening mammograms? Context: Two radiographers read a test set of 1000 screening mammograms previously reported by a consultant radiologist. Three radiographers then acted as a second reader for 54,000 screening mammograms, their recall results are presented. Four consultant radiologists and three film reading radiographers were timed while reading 2500 mammograms each. When reading the test mammograms the two radiographers recalled all the cancers previously detected by the radiologist at the original screen read. They also recalled 32/90 women who subsequently presented with interval cancers. As a second reader the radiographers had similar recall and cancer detection rates to the radiologists (P>0.05). Double reading detected 9% more cancers. The radiographers take the same length of time to film read as radiologists (P>0.05).
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Radiographers are able to read screening mammograms at least as well as radiologists and do not take longer to do so.