Guidelines for when women should start getting mammograms have been changing. A new study makes the case for explaining to women the risks and benefits of screening for breast cancer.
The most recent recommendation of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is that all women 40 to 74 get mammograms every other year. A previous recommendation said screening should start at 50. One doctor suggests that people “test smarter, not test more.”
After a nationally representative sample of U.S. women between the ages of 39 and 49 learned about the pros and cons of mammography, more than twice as many elected to wait until they turn 50 to get screened, aMost women have absorbed the widely broadcast message that screening mammography saves lives by the time they enter middle age.
The benefits and the harms of mammography came as a surprise to nearly half the study’s participants. More than one-quarter said what they learned from the study about overdiagnosis differed from what their doctors told them.“I think most people are completely unaware of the risks associated with screening because we’ve had 30, 40 years of a public health messaging campaign: Go out and get your mammogram, and everything will be fine,” she said in an NPR interview.
The new study was conducted in 2022, when the task force guidelines called for women in their 40s to make individual decisions.returned to saying that all women between the ages of 40 and 74 should be screened with mammograms every other year. Rising breast cancer rates in younger women, as well as models showing the number of lives that screening might save, especially among Black women, drove the push for earlier screening.
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