Guidelines for Screening Mammography

Kudos to the ACR Commission on Breast Imaging for its comprehensive recommendations for breast cancer screening of average-risk women [1]. Screening mammography has been, by far, the most controversial and lengthy of all United States (US) health care guidelines, and the authors appropriately emphasize the most contentious of these issues: the age at which mammography should begin and the interval between examinations. The ACR, the US Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and most European guidelines [2] have different recommendations regarding these practice parameters, although each was developed by expert panels using the same or similar evidence-based data.
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research