All individuals with an average risk of breast cancer should begin screening mammography at 40 years of age, the American College of Obstetricians and
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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 ...
All women should get screened for breast cancer every other year starting at age 40. There is not enough evidence to decide whether to continue or stop screening in women 75 years or older and what more should be done to screen for breast cancer in women with dense breasts. To learn more...
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...
Breast Cancer Res Treat 131(3):949–955 Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW). http://www.aihw.gov.au/collection-of-mortality-data/ ISRCTN Register UK evaluating the age extension of the NHS breast screening program. http://www.controlled-...
Breast cancer screening helps people live longer. Screening can catch cancer early, either in the precancerous stage or when it's localized to a very small part of the body. When we can catch it early and decrease the risk of it coming back in the future, patients not only live longer...
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...
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 ...
The risks and benefits of mammography screening among women 40 to 49 years of age remain an important issue for clinical practice.To evaluate the evidence ... Armstrong,Katrina - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 489发表: 2007年 Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: A Systematic...