Automated Breast Ultrasonography as a Supplementary Screening Method in High Risk Populations

Mammography has been the main modality of breast cancer screening programs for many years and is still the only proved diagnostic method to decrease breast cancer related deaths.1 However in some specific subpopulations like women with dense breasts, mammography could give the false negative result, in about 50% of cancerous cases.2 About 43% of American women aged between 40- 75 years and nearly half of younger women have heterogeneously or extremely dense breasts tissue3, 4, which can highly decrease the accuracy of mammography.5, 6 Moreover dense breast is an independent risk factor for developing cancer