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 uncertainty,...
New guidelines for breast cancer screening in US women. JAMA 2015;314:1569-71.Keating, N. L., & Pace, L. E. (2015). New guidelines for breast cancer screening in US women. Journal of the American Medical Association, 314(15), 1569-1571. http://dx.doi. org/10.1001/jama.2015.13086...
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
"These are the first guidelines for cervical cancer prevention that have stratified the recommendations 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 ...
Though the FDA urges women to talk with their providers, our research found thatfew women have such conversationsand thatmany providers lack sufficient knowledgeabout breast density and current guidelines for breast screening. It's not yet clear why, but providers receive little or no training about...
Multiple US organizations have issued guidelines about screening for breast cancer, second only to lung cancer as the deadliest malignancy in women. Although there is no consensus among these groups, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)new recommendation statement, recently published inJAMA,...
We systematically reviewed the literature on the accuracy of new technologies proposed for breast cancer screening. Four potential tests were identified (ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), full-field digital mammography (FFDM), and computer-aided detection (CAD)) for which primary studies me...
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.
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 ...
(HealthDay)—New recommendations have been developed for breast cancer screening based on a life-years-gained model; the American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS) official statement was published online May 3.