Optimal Policies for Reducing Unnecessary Follow-up Mammography Exams in Breast Cancer Diagnosis (Aug 30, 2022 - Aug 29, 2027)

Optimal Policies for Reducing Unnecessary Follow-up Mammography Exams in Breast Cancer Diagnosis is organized by Opus Medicus, Inc.

Course Dates:
Last Review Date: 30-Aug-2022
Expiration Date: 29-Aug-2027

Description:
This course provides structured guidelines based on a decision-analytical approach that is designed to help radiologists decide when to recommend a biopsy or short-interval follow-up based on a patient-specific breast cancer risk. The course presents a decision process model that optimizes the post-mammography diagnostic decisions for an individual woman that maximizes her total expected quality-adjusted life-years. Clinical data is used in solving the model and the results are compared with the actual decisions made by radiologists.

Objectives:
Participants completing this course will gain an understanding of new structured guidelines on when to recommend biopsy or short-interval follow-up based on a patient-specific breast cancer risk.

Topics:

• Introduction
• Background on Mammography Interpretation
• Problem Formulation
• Structural Properties
• Computational Results
• Conclusions