The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) has issued new breast cancer screening guidelines for 2024, including suggesting mammograms start earlier.
The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is now recommending women get a mammogram every other year beginning at age 40, a significant update from the previous recommendation of screenings starting at 50. Dr. John Wong, vice chair of the U.S. Preventati
Text Despite the substantial interest and investment in research on breast cancer screening, there is uncertainty about the magnitude of mammography’s benefits and harms and how to select patients and screening strategies to optimize the balance between benefits and harms. In the face of such uncert...
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half of women over 40 in the U.S. have dense breast tissue. These new rules will require mammogram providers to notify women if they have dense breast tissue and recommend they consult with a doctor about whether they need additional screening.These amendments must be in practice within the ...
based on the resources available in the settings where women live," said said Jose Jeronimo, MD, co-chair of the ASCO expert panel that developed the guideline and senior advisor for women's cancers at PATH in Seattle, Washington. "There are similar guidelines for breast cancer."...
May 02, 2019 Following updated breast cancer screening guidelines from the American College of Physicians and varying recommendations from other medical organizations, Dr. Julie Sprunt of Texas Breast Specialists–Austin shared guidance on when and how often women should get...
“Onlyabout 65%of women overage40are screened forbreast cancer, and only about half of those women are getting annual screening—in part because ofconflicting guidelines aboutrecommendedscreening intervals,” saidlead authorMargarita Zuley, M.D.,professorandchief of theDivision ofBreast Imaginginthe ...
The updated guidelines,published onlineon February 8 in theJournal of Clinical Oncology, use more rigorous criteria to evaluate the evidence base than the 2007 biomarker guidelines, according to Lyndsay N. Harris, MD, director of the breast cancer program at Case Western University in Cleveland, an...
Dr. Deborah Korenstein, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, writes, "The new recommendations on breast cancer screening from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care serve as a model for the important role of guidelines in promoting value ...