How to false positive, false negative and overdiagnosis impact your breast cancer patients?

1. False Positive &
False Negative Results:
How Do They Affect
Patients?

2. How do false positive
results, false negative
results and over-diagnosis
of breast cancer impact
you and your patients?

3. By examining each issue,
we will address why we
must avoid missing a
diagnosis and over-
diagnosing breast cancer.

4. 1
False Positive Results

5. What is the impact?
! The financial burden of false positive
mammograms includes out-of-pocket expenses
and emotional anxiety on patients and their
families.
! This is of particular concern to women who fall
into the “gray zone” or have “dense breasts”
! The consequences of false positive results can
be numerous due to the cascade of diagnostic
procedures that often occur, including
ultrasound and MRI and/or biopsy.

6. 2
False Negative Results

7. What is the impact?
!The stage at which breast cancer is diagnosed
significantly impacts the overall cost of related
care as well as a woman's chance of survival.
! A false negative result can delay a woman’s
diagnosis, which requires more aggressive and
expensive treatment (costs can include out-of-
pocket expenses in addition to treatment
expenses).
!Not to mention the anxiety patients and their
families go through at the hand of a missed
diagnoses.

8. 3
Over-diagnosis

9. What is the impact?
!The New England Journal of Medicine
article “ Breast-Cancer Tumor Size,
Overdiagnosis and Mammography
Screening effectiveness” agrees that breast
cancer overdiagnosis is defined as “the
diagnosis of a breast lesion that is unlikely
to become clinically evident during the
lifetime of the patient, exposing them to
the harm of over treatment
!Overdiagnosis of breast cancer
contributes to approximately 22-31
percent of all diagnoses.

10. 4
How Can We Avoid
These Problems?

11. What is the impact?
The impact of these results means a diagnostic tool is
needed to help reduce the number of of false positive
and false negative results and over diagnoses. A tool that
helps in this reduction would financially help, not only
patients but the healthcare system as a whole and relieve
unnecessary anxiety from patients and their families.

12. Are you ready to
learn more?
Download our breast
cancer detection guide
below !