title: Relative carcinogenic effects of different mammography techniques.
abstract: Comparisons of different mammography techniques can be significantly altered by assumptions about the relevant measures for carcinogenic effects in mammography at low doses. Using a combination of recent data available from the literature, a study as been made of the significance of various assumptions concerning both the appropriate measures for carcinogenesis in mammography and the shape of the dose-effects relationship. It is found that for techniques typical of current reduced-dose mammography systems, the comparison of the relative carcinogenic effects of the techniques is significantly affected by both the measures that are used and the shape of th dose-effects relationship.
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000379:methods; D008961:Models, Structural; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced