To assess recent trends in the percentage of women 50 years of age and older who have had a screening mammogram, we analyzed data from interviews from women from 33 states who participated in the 1987 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. Our study group included 8,402 women 50 years ...
“For women age 40 to 49 with high breast density, and with either a first-degree relative with breast cancer or a prior breast biopsy, the benefits versus harm for performing mammography every two years is similar to screening an average-risk woman in her 50s. This amounts to about 20 p...
perform an "annual screening mammogram... in asymptomatic women 50 years of age or older." This recommendation ignores the presence of coexisting disease and extremely advanced age. Should octogenarians with atrophic and readily palpable breasts really continue to have such screening annually ad ...
To the Editor.— The article entitled "The Value of Mammography Screening in Women Under Age 50 Years"1 concludes that breast cancer screening for women younger than age 50 years has a sufficiently low yield of identified cases of breast cancer and that women should check first with their phys...
Radiation risk from screening mammography of women aged 40-49 years. breast glandular dose of 4 mGy from a two-view per breast bilateral mammogram, one can estimate that annual mammography of 100,000 women for 10 consecutive years beginning at age 40 will result in at most eight during their...
New recommended age for breast cancer screenings The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is proposing that all women at average risk of breast cancer start screening at age 40 to reduce their risk. The recommended age for a mammogram just got 10 years younger....
Robert Smith, vice president of screening for the American Cancer Society, said the study findings show that mammograms are still worthwhile after the age of 70. “Breast cancerincidence and mortality increase as women age, and roughly 30 percent of breast cancer deaths each year occur in women...
Mammography service screening and mortality in breast cancer patients: 20-year follow-up before and after introduction of screening. We also analysed mortality for the 40–49-year age-group separately. The unadjusted risk of death from breast cancer dropped significantly in the second ... L Tabar...
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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...