University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
The New Mexico Mammography Project is an NCI-funded project that began in 1992 as a pilot project of the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC), a national group comprised of eight sites that collects and manages data on mammography use.
To date, the Consortium database contains over 1,000,000 breast imaging records on
approximately 100,000 patients.
The project collects information on demographics, risk factors, breast cancer
symptoms and health history, previous treatment for breast cancer, and radiology
results on mammography patients
throughout the state of New Mexico. The project also examines tumor size, mammography sensitivity and specificity
and factors that affect sensitivity and specificity, and the completeness and timeliness of patient follow-up. The
primary goals of the overall project are to measure mammography outcomes and use, and ultimately to improve
mammography screening. 