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6 th <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>Workshop</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> <strong>Densitometry</strong><br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>Breast</strong> Cancer Risk Assessment<br />

P22 MAMMOGRAPHIC DENSITY AND EARLY MAMMOGRAPHIC SCREENING<br />

PERFORMANCE MEASURES IN THE NORWEGIAN BREAST CANCER SCREENING<br />

PROGRAM<br />

Solveig Hofvind 1,2* Isabel dos-Santos-Silva 3 , Merete Ellingjord-Dale 4 , Sofie Sebuødegård 1 , Giske Ursin 1,5<br />

1 Cancer Registry of Norway, Oslo, Norway; 3 Department of N<strong>on</strong>-Communicable Disease Epidemiology,<br />

L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong> School of Hygiene <strong>and</strong> Tropical Medicine, L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong>, UK ; 4 Institute of Basic Medical Sciences,<br />

University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ; 2 Oslo <strong>and</strong> Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Oslo,<br />

Norway; 5 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA<br />

ABSTRACTS<br />

Background: It is well known that mammographic density (MD) increases the risk of breast cancer <strong>and</strong><br />

reduces sensitivity of mammographic screening. However, less is known <strong>on</strong> how MD may affect early<br />

performance measures in mammographic screening am<strong>on</strong>g those recalled for further assessments. We<br />

used data collected by the populati<strong>on</strong>-based Norwegian <strong>Breast</strong> Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) to<br />

investigate associati<strong>on</strong>s of MD <strong>and</strong> the percentage of cancers detected am<strong>on</strong>g women recalled for further<br />

assessment (positive predictive value <strong>on</strong>e, PPV-1), as well as percentage of cancers detected am<strong>on</strong>g the<br />

women who underwent a biopsy (fine needle aspirati<strong>on</strong> cytology or core needle biopsy)(PPV-2) <strong>and</strong> MD<br />

associati<strong>on</strong>s with prognostic histopathological tumor characteristics.<br />

Methods: We analyzed data from women screened in the NBCSP during 1996-2010 who were<br />

subsequently recalled for further assessments. Visual assessment of MD was routinely performed <strong>on</strong><br />

analogue (80%) or digital mammograms by radiologists with expertise in mammography using an inhouse<br />

visual 3-category scale (low: MD

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