USPSTF calls for biennial mammography screening as of age 40

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has released new draft recommendation...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: ACR releases updated breast cancer screening recommendation New Journal of Breast Imaging editor has big plans Tailored interventions boost rural residents' cancer screening uptake Should elderly breast cancer survivors still get mammograms? Urgent care settings may offer breast cancer screening opportunityComments: 5/9/2023 11:55:43 AMDr Dan Kopans WHEN EXPERTS ARE IGNORED We will never know how many lives have been, tragically, lost because, until today, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), and the doctors who followed their advice, advised women to wait until the age of 50 to begin screening every two years.  To begin with, there has never been any scientific basis for using the age of 50 as a threshold for screening.  There are no data that haven’t been grouped and averaged that show that any of the parameters of screening change abruptly at the age of 50.  The incidence of breast cancer increases steadily with increasing age.  The most rigorous studies, randomized, controlled trials (RCT), have shown that lives are saved by screening and early detection for women ages 40-74 – the ages of the women who participated in the RCT’s.  It is disingenuous to suggest that ”new” data changed their minds.  Experts in screening for breast cancer have been pointing out the data for years.&n...
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