Chapel Hill, NC - Etta Pisano, M.D, an international expert on screening mammography, shares her views on the new mammography screening recommendation issued Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Pisano is UNC School of Medicine vice dean for academic affairs, Kenan Professor of Radiology and director of the UNC Biomedical Research Imaging Center. Pisano, a UNC Lineberger faculty member, was the lead author of a major 2005 National Cancer Institute-funded breast screening study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Study scientists found that digital mammography detected significantly (up to 22%) more cancers than screen film mammography in women 50 and younger, premenopausal and perimenopausal women, and women with dense breasts. The study was conducted by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and included researchers at 33 sites across the U.S. and Canada.

Watch Dr. Pisano's Video Interview.