Diagnostic performance of tomosynthesis plus synthetic mammography versus full-field digital mammography with or without tomosynthesis in breast cancer screening: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Int J Cancer · 2025 · PMC11701408 · PMID 39394862

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The comparison of specificities in Figure 3 showed higher specificity with DBT plus S2D of borderline significance ( p = 0.06) with a combined difference of 1.13 (95% CI −0.06 to 2.31).

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A similar result was observed for specificity for DBT plus FFDM compared to FFDM alone, however, this fell just short of statistical significance, due to the heterogeneity of results among studies.

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