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False-positive mammograms discourage women from breast cancer screening, study finds. Why it happens — and what to do.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While experts are sympathetic to the stress false positives can cause, they're urging women to keep going to annual screenings, ...
ascopubs.org

Patient body fat and AI ensemble technique and the influence on false-positive rate in AI second observer for colorectal cancer detection.

Risk factors for relapse based on the molecular profiling of Japanese patients with stage II colorectal cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
Becker's Hospital Review

Electronic surveillance framework from UPMC could reduce false-positive diagnoses

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC’s electronic surveillance framework for hospitalized children could, if deployed elsewhere, reduce the rate of false-positive diagnoses of serious health ...
UPI

False positive mammograms lead many women to stop getting scans

A significant number of women stop getting regular mammograms after being frightened by a "false positive" scan that incorrectly suggests they have breast cancer, a new study finds. About 77% of women ...