ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Is Ultrasound an Accurate Alternative for Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening in an Asian Population? A Meta-Analysis.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Supplemental Screening as an Adjunct to Mammography for Breast Cancer Screening in People With Dense Breasts: A Health Technology Assessment.Ontario health technology assessment series · 2023Pooled it
- Automated generation of structured breast ultrasound reports using BreastViT and ChatGPT.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Article
- Evaluating the Impact of an Educational Intervention on Community Pharmacists' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions Toward Breast Cancer Screening.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Screening Outcomes of Supplemental Automated Breast Ultrasound in Women With Nondense Breasts Undergoing Mammography.Korean journal of radiology · 2026Article
- Study on ABUS Applicability for Rural Women With Low Health Resources in China-Large-Scale Population, Non-Opportunistic Screening.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Article
- Super-Resolution Ultrasound Radiomics Can Predict the Upstaging of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- Evaluating the Role of Breast Ultrasound in Early Detection of Breast Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Comprehensive Narrative Review.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Rethinking screening mammography in Japan: next-generation breast cancer screening through breast awareness and supplemental ultrasonography.Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024Review
- The Accuracy of Breast Cancer Diagnostic Tools.Cureus · 2024Article
- Diagnostic value of multimodal ultrasound for breast cancer and prediction of sentinel lymph node metastases.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Edge-Driven Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Novel Approach to Ultrasound Breast Tumor Segmentation.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Overcoming the limitations of screening mammography in Japan and Korea: a paradigm shift to personalized breast cancer screening based on ultrasonography.Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
- Ultrasound as a Method for Early Diagnosis of Breast Pathology.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Ultrasound for Breast Cancer Screening in Resource-Limited Settings: Current Practice and Future Directions.Cancers · 2023Review
- The Potential of Adding Mammography to Handheld Ultrasound or Automated Breast Ultrasound to Reduce Unnecessary Biopsies in BI-RADS Ultrasound Category 4a: A Multicenter Hospital-Based Study in China.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Cost-effectiveness evaluation of risk-based breast cancer screening in Urban Hebei Province.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Breast Cancer in Asia: Incidence, Mortality, Early Detection, Mammography Programs, and Risk-Based Screening Initiatives.Cancers · 2022Review
- Breast Cancer-How Can Imaging Help?Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Radial Basis Function for Breast Lesion Detection from MammoWave Clinical Data.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
In Asian countries, ultrasound has been proposed as a possible alternative for mammography in breast cancer screening because of its superiority in dense breasts, accessibility and low costs. This research aimed to meta-analyze the evidence for the diagnostic performance of ultrasound compared to mammography for breast cancer screening in Asian women. PubMed, Web of Science, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were searched for studies that concurrently compared mammography and ultrasound in 2000-2019. Data extraction and risk of bias were performed according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA) statement. The primary outcome was the sensitivity and specificity. Bivariate random models were used to generate pooled estimates of diagnostic parameters and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). In total, 4424 studies were identified of which six studies met the inclusion criteria with a sample size of 124,425 women. The pooled mean prevalence of the included studies was 3.7‱ (range: 1.2-5.7‱). The pooled sensitivity of mammography was significantly higher than that of ultrasound (0.81 [95% CI 0.71-0.88] versus 0.65 [95% CI 0.58-0.72],
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