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 ...
Presents a letter to the editor commenting on recommendations for mammography in the presence of advanced age and coexisting disease, published in the 'Journal of the American Medical Association'.TemiankaDanielJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
When should the first mammogram be done? What time intervals for further examinations? Different recommendations are issued by different radiological and cancer societies. There is a general agreement on the usefulness of screening mammography from 50 to 70 years of age, with a time interval dependin...
MEASUREMENTS: Multiple logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between demographic, comorbidity, and health services utilization variables on self-reported physician recommendation for a mammogram. RESULTS: More than half (58.9%) of the sample reported a recent mammography recommendation (...
There were no significant predictors of congruence for the abnormal mammogram test sample from the potential variables collected. Raw agreement rates support using patient self-report in assessing abnormal test follow-up recommendations. 展开 关键词: congruence validity screening follow-up provider/patient...
For women 40 to 49 years, screening mammography can reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer, but the number of deaths averted is much smaller than it is in older women, and the number of false-positive tests and unnecessary biopsies is higher. ...
average risk for breast cancer should have amammogramevery other year beginning at age 50 up to the age of 74. Women in their 40s are advised to make an individual decision in partnership with their doctors, since the likelihood of benefitting from screening is lower for women in that age ...
"Our goal was to cautionasymptomatic womenthat positive mammograms are vastly more likely to be false positives than actual evidence of cancer," said Dr. William Skorupski, co-author of the Significance article. "For most women, a false positive mammogram is about 19 times more likely than a...
This study evaluated interventions implemented with women in a health maintenance organization who had not utilized their annual free mammogram referral 45... ES King,BK Rimer,J Seay,... - 《American Journal of Public Health》 被引量: 228发表: 1994年 Associations of ethnicity/race and socioecon...
JGIM REVIEWS Factors Influencing Primary Care Practitioners' Cancer Screening Recommendations for Older Adults: a Systematic Review Jenna Smith, BSc (Hons)1,2,3 , Rachael H. Dodd, PhD1,2,4, Karen M. Gainey, BHSc (N&D)2, Vasi Naganathan, MBBS PhD5,6, ...