Breast cancer screenings may decline for women who receive false-positive test results, says study

High rates of false positive test results may be keeping women from sticking to recommended mammogram screenings for breast cancer, a new study has found. Researchers from UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California, reviewed more than 3.5 million screening mammograms performed among more than one million women between 2005 and 2017. Women who received a true-negative result were more likely to return for future screenings, with a 77% compliance rate. THESE 17 CANCER TYPES ARE MORE COMMON IN GEN X AND MILLENNIALS, AS STUDY NOTES'ALARMING TREND' By comparison, among those who received a false positive, only 61% returned for another mammogram in six months, and 67% returned for a recommended biopsy. The women, who ranged in age from 40 to 73, had not previously received a breast cancer diagnosis.