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FWIW, I firmly believe my bc was diagnosed only as a result of CAD. I say this because it took a week for the radiologist to call me back for additional views, and he seemed pretty rattled at the result. I assumed he had eyeballed the films and thought they looked fine, until the CAD picked up a blip. My bc never presented as a mass on the mammogram, it was detected because of "architectural distortion," that was very difficult to see until they did the magnified views, which they no doubt would have missed without the CAD.
As an update, at lunch I read this same story in my local newspaper, and they interviewed the president of the imaging center where I have my mammo's. He said the study was done with the first generation CAD program developed in 1998; that his center waited for the second generation to be developed before adding CAD in 2001. He thinks the second generation performs much better.
Hopeful
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