Lay Screeners in Mammographic Survey Programs

Abstract

A secretary and a technologist trained by the tutorial method coded 337 consecutive mammograms from a mammography screening clinic as to the presence or absence of carcinoma. Of seven histologically proved cancers, each screener correctly coded six, as did the mammographer. The results indicate that selected individuals can be trained as screeners and correlate with the mammographer's classification in approximately 90% of the cases.