This study provides encouraging findings to support the extension of the screening program to older ages and suggests that further extension of the UK NHS Breast Screening Programme up to age 78 years beyond the current upper age limit of 73 years could be potentially cost-effective according to ...
Reduction of the age limit for examining women for early signs of cancer within the framework of compulsory health insurance makes it necessary to examine which concrete measures can be offered to the group of women between 20 and 29 years of age now under discussion. A critical review does no...
"The issue really depends on the interval between the screening, and the task force recommends every other year, but that just allows the cancers to get a little big larger, potentially becoming untreatable, and that could lead to more deaths," said Dr. Sarah Friedewald, chief of breast imag...
The new recommendation could cause more harm than benefit The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendation for the age when all women should start mammography screening, lowering it from 50 to 40.1 This change immediately affects more than 20 million American women and other ...
one mineral density Breast cancer screening after age 69 is more cost-effective if restricted to women with higher bone mineral densityBreast cancer screening after age 69 is more cost-effective if restricted to women with higher bone mineral densitydoi:10.1054/ebog.2001.0227...
In India, breast and cervical cancers account for two-fifths of all cancers and are predominantly prevalent among women in the reproductive age group. The Government of India recommended screening of breast and cervical cancer among women aged 30 years and over. This study examines the socio-econo...
In the hope of resolving underlying policy questions related to the value of breast cancer screening with mammography for women younger than 50 years of age, the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute in 1997 jointly sponsored a consensus conference on the subject. While th...
The goal of breast cancer screening is to detect occult breast cancer in a population of women in whom the great majority will not develop breast cancer in their lifetime. All the major clinical societies in the United States, including the American Cancer Society and the American College of ...
CA: A Cancer Journal for CliniciansSmith RA. Breast cancer screening among women younger than age 50: a current assessment of the issues. CA Cancer J Clin. 2000;50:312-336.Smith R. Breast cancer screening among women younger than age 50: a current assessment of the issues. CA Cancer J ...
The objectives of this study were to assess breast density knowledge and breast density awareness, and to identify information associated with intention to complete routine and supplemental screening for breast cancer in a diverse sample of women age eligible for mammography. We quantitatively (self-rep...