After a False Positive Result, Screening Mammography May Not be a Priority for Some Women

The likelihood of returning for a subsequent screening mammogram after receiving a false positive result decreased more steeply for a group of women that the lead investigator on a new study would not have predicted. Diana Miglioretti, PhD, from UC Davis, talks about this groups characteristics and why the finding surprised her.

Diana Miglioretti, PhD, is professor and division chief of biostatistics in the University of California Davis School of Medicine's department of public health sciences and an affiliate investigator at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. Miglioretti co-leads the US Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium, a network of breast imaging registries with information collected on more than 13 million breast imaging examinations since 1994.