Double reading of screening mammograms will have resource implications

Abstract

EDITOR,—Jackie Brown and colleagues show that in their breast screening unit double reading of screening mammograms with recall by consensus between film readers is cost effective.1 Unfortunately, these results cannot be directly extrapolated to the NHS breast screening programme as the study was carried out during the first (prevalence) screening round, when the overall rate of detection of cancer is higher and the number of additional cancers detected by double reading is likely to be greater than in …