To achieve the greatest mortality benefit, this single-year cohort of women would have the greatest total number of screening mammograms, benign recalls, and benign biopsies performed over the course of screening by following annual screening starting at age 40 years (90.2 million, 6.8 million, ...
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, ...
Finally, the task force was unable to make a recommendation on whether or not newer 3D mammograms should be used for regular breast cancer screening, as there is not enough evidence to show if they improve survival and quality of life or worsen over-diagnosis....
Variability in the interpretation of screening mammograms by US radiologists. Findings from a national sample. To evaluate the effectiveness of screening mammography by estimating the variability in radiologists' ability to detect breast cancer within the US populat... C,A,Beam,... - 《Archives of...
Patient compliance in mobile screening mammography We assessed the follow-up behavior of women who had abnormal results of screening mammograms taken on a mobile van. A retrospective cohort study was conduc... ED Pisano,BC Yankaskas,SV Ghate,... - 《Academic Radiology》 被引量: 47发表: 1995...
mammograms for women who are between the ages of 50 and 74. They state that the decision to screen women in their 40s should be individualized, and those who place a higher value on the benefit than the harms of screening may choose every other year screening between the ages of 40 and ...
Some have said start screening at 50.One thing that I think all of the professional organizations would agree with is that the most lives are saved if you start annual screening mammograms for average-risk women at age 40. But sometime around age 25 — latest by age 30 — women should ...
byWiley A new article discusses the evidentiary support for the recent changes made by the American Cancer Society in its recommendations for breast cancer screening. In addition to modifying the suggested ages for annual and biannual mammography, the new recommendations also focus on patient preferenc...
The new USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines recommend that women start regular mammograms at age 40, which is a shift from the previous recommendation of starting at age 50. However, the new guidelines suggest screenings every two years rather than annually. ...
Moreover, the increasing rate of nonpalpable breast lesions detected in screening programmes as well as the general goal of reducing the extent of surgical treatment have increased the need forlocalisation before surgery. Localisation can also be performed when neoadjuvant therapy is under consideration...