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USPSTF finalizes breast cancer screening recommendations

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The ACR also calls for women with genetics-based increased risk, those with a calculated lifetime risk of 20% or more, and those exposed to chest radiation at a young age receive MRI surveillance starting at ages 25 to 30. The BCSC is a network of six breast imaging registries and two historic registries.

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Editorial criticizes breast screening guidelines, ACR responds

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Harris in his editorial, however, cited randomized controlled trials that influenced the task force’s recommendations in 2002 and 2009 that showed little to no statistically significant reduction in breast cancer mortality in women ages 40 to 49 years. He also wrote that overdiagnosis can be harmful to women.

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