ACR Breast Imaging Co-Chair, Fellow, DMIST Trial Featured in Washington Post Article

Carl D’Orsi, M.D., co-chair of the ACR Breast Imaging Commission, discusses the advantages and challenges associated with digital mammography, and other emerging breast imaging technologies, in a recent Healthday article carried in many large newspapers nationwide, including the Washington Post. The article highlights the ACRIN DMIST trial and also quotes ACR Fellow Priscilla F. Butler, M.S.

The articles states, “findings of…the American College of Radiology Imaging Network Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial, were that younger women with dense breast tissue, those under 50 and those who are premenopausal, would benefit most from digital mammograms.

"In other situations, it is probably no different [to film]," said D'Orsi, adding: "You have the ability to manipulate the image, invert it, adjust the brightness, which you can't do with film, so it [interpretation] may take longer…There's a learning curve to it because it's new, but you get faster and faster."

The articles also states, “High-tech computer-based digital mammography is already available at about 10 percent of diagnostic centers in the country and growing steadily at a rate of about 4 percent a month, said Priscilla F. Butler, senior director of the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Accreditation Programs.”

Butler added, "Mammography was one of the last holdouts in going to a filmless environment, which is much more efficient. All of medicine is pretty excited about it."

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