Get in-depth insights on the 2024 USPSTF breast cancer screening recommendations from JAMA. Explore the full recommendation and interpretive resources on JAMA Network.
USPSTF Recommendations on Breast Cancer Screening: A Missed Opportunity to Save 10,000 Women Each YearThousands of women with breast cancer die needlessly each year due to ineffective screeningpractices. In October 2011, this Institute filed a Citizens Petition with the FDA requesting thatthe FDA ...
"What these recommendations are reaffirming is that mammography is an important tool in preventing deaths frombreast cancer, and that the value of mammography increases with age," said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, vice cochair of the USPSTF. Women 50 to 74 years "are the ones most likel...
(HealthDay)—The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends risk-reducing medications for women at high risk for breast cancer who are at low risk for adverse events, but medications are not recommended for routine use. These recommendations form the basis of a draft recommendation ...
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However, an expert in breast screening has taken issue with the whole plan. Daniel Kopans, MD, professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Breast Imaging Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, argues that previous USPSTF guidelines onbreast cancerscreening "have ...
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I am now biased towards over-testing, because my emotional relief at dodging a bullet is stronger than my cerebral desire to adhere to population-based recommendations. Knowing this, I will still try to avoid the temptation to over-test and over-treat my patients. But if they so much as ...
Among the recommendations mentioned are the use of Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) or AUDIT-Consumption (AUDIT-C), modification on prescribing tamoxifen or raloxifene to prevent breast cancer in women, and screening for women of childbearing age for intimate partner violence (IPV)....
Screening for breast cancer: recommendations and rationale This is one in a series excerpted from the Recommendations, and Rationale Statements released by the current U.S. Preventive Services, Task Force (USPSTF). These statements address preventive health services for use in primary care clini......