Recommendations for Mammography in the Presence of Advanced Age and Coexisting DiseaseCHEMICAL WARFIELD CRITICAL CAREFIRST-AID STATIONTo the Editor.— The ... D Temianka - 《Jama the Journal of the American Medical Association》 被引量: 145发表: 1989年 Recommendations for mammography in the presence...
Age differences in breast cancer knowledge, perceptions of risk of breast cancer, barriers to mammography, recommendations of mammography by health professionals, health promotion behaviors, and mammography use and intention were investigated. The subjects were 139 women aged 30 or older who were ...
The study challenges current guidelines from groups such as the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that make recommendations based on age alone. The American Cancer Society recommends annual screening starting at age 40 with no upper age limit, while the U.S. Pr...
The authors said targeting screening to high-risk groups who are less compliant with recommendations could be more effective than general age-based recommendations. Health insurance data show than about 90% of mammograms for middle-aged women are negative, 9.7% are false positives,...
SUGGESTED for you When the analysis was limited to the 68,218 (10%) mammograms performed in women 75 years and older, 530 patients were diagnosed with 560 breast cancers (0.78%). In this cohort, average age was 80.3 years (range, 75 to 98). ...
The earlier recommendations shouldn't affect insurance coverage, either. Gounder said most women already had insurance coverage for breast cancer screening every year starting at age 40. The Center for Disease Control says most health insurance plans are required to cover mammograms every one to two...
The authors cogently discuss the controversies of routine mammography screening, alluding to the lack of hard data that has resulted in recommendations for annual mammograms by such groups as the American College of Radiology and the American Cancer Society.2,3Two important issues that are not ...
However, there is currently insufficient data to make specific recommendations for different racial and ethnic populations. The current one-size-fits-all policy to screen the entire female population from a certain age may be neither fair and equitable nor optimal. In a 2021 article in Nature, ...
Despite current recommendations for women to be screened for breast cancer with mammography every 1 to 2 years, less than half of all newly diagnosed breas... GH Rauscher,CE Ferrans,K Kaiser,... - Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Canc...
Patterns of mammography use for Hispanic women compared to NH white women varied. Conclusion Findings suggest differential utilization of mammograms by race/ethnicity among women outside current recommendations and of average risk. Future studies should examine the role of practice patterns and patient–...