USPSTF finalizes breast cancer screening recommendations

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)’s newly published final recommendations support breast cancer screening beginning in women at age 40, but they don’t go as far as many screening advocates had hoped. In addition to recommending biennial breast cancer screening for women ages 40 to 74, the task force stuck with its draft recommendations from 2023, reporting that it found insufficient evidence for screening women 75 and older. What’s more, the USPSTF concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend supplemental screening with MRI or ultrasound in women, regardless of breast density.In announcing its new recommendations April 30 in JAMA, the USPSTF said that the evidence is sufficient that biennial screening mammography, rather than annual scans or personalized screening decisions, offers moderate net benefit in women ages 40-74. The task force categorized this recommendation as Grade B, which indicates its belief there is high certainty that the net benefit is moderate or there is moderate certainty that the net benefit is moderate to substantial.The decision marks a return of sorts to the task force's 2002 breast cancer screening recommendations, in which the UPSTF recommended that women receive annual or biennial screening beginning at 40. In its 2009 recommendations, the task force chose instead to recommend that women receive biennial screening at the age of 50 and kept to that position when updating its recommendations in 2016.   The US...
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