title: Adverse effects of screening mammography.
abstract: The main risks and other adverse consequences from screening mammography include discomfort from breast compression, patient recall for additional imaging, and false positive biopsies. Although these risks affect a larger number of women than those who benefit from screening, the risks are less consequential than the life-sparing benefits from early detection. Radiation risk, even for multiple screenings, is negligible at current mammography doses. Anxiety before screening or resulting from supplementary imaging work-up, short-term follow-up, cyst aspiration, and biopsy has not dampened the enthusiasm of most women for the value of early detection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Mount Sinai Hospital, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA. stephen.feig@msnyuhealth.org
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Feig
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000523:psychology; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000523:psychology; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D012307:Risk Factors