For Older Women, Mammograms Every 2 Years Found as Good as Annual Test; Study Detects No Differences in Late-Stage Cancer Diagnoses with 2-Year IntervalDoheny, Kathleen
The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening mammography, with or without clinical breast examination, every 1-2 years for women aged 40 and older. Altogether clinical trials have found a relative reduction in breast cancer mortality of 20%, but the two highest-quality ...
“I think if a woman from the age of 50 has a mammogram every year, or every two years, she’s going to get breast cancer as a direct result from that” –Dr. Patrick Kingsley, Clinical Ecologist (take from the documentary trai...
Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends that women at average risk for breast cancer get their first mammogram starting at age 50, and then repeat the exam every two years until age 74. The expert panel believes that before the age of 50, mammography may pick up too many ...
摘要: Reports on the recommendation of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that women who are 40 years of age and older should receive routine mammograms every two years.年份: 2002 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 EBSCO 相似文献...
mammograms. Women 45 to 54 should have a mammogram each year, and those 55 years and over should get mammograms every 1 to 2 years. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening every 2 years from ages 50 through 74. Talk with your doctor about when you should start ...
average risk for breast cancer start getting yearly mammograms at ages 40 – 44, if they choose to do so, and strongly recommends yearly mammography tests for healthy women aged 45 – 54. They also maintain that a woman should have a mammography test once every two years after the age of...
An every-two-years schedule also cuts your chances of being referred for unnecessary tests and biopsies by almost half. So, the next annual mammogram letter you get? Consider it an invitation to talk to your doctor about screening frequency. If you're past retirement age... The guidepost ...
getting yearly mammograms at age 45, with the option to get one beginning at age 40. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that most women get screening mammograms every other year from ages 50 to 74, and women in their 40s may choose to get a mammogram every two years. ...
Top cancer scientists advise women in their 40s to have mammograms every one or two years.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) 来自 highbeam.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 16 作者:S Vedantam,T Reeves 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 highbeam.com 相似文献...