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Editorial criticizes breast screening guidelines, ACR responds

AuntMinnie

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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Mammography AI model performs well in screening populations

AuntMinnie

From full-field digital mammograms, the AI extracted mammographic features including density, microcalcifications, masses, and left-right breast asymmetries for risk assessment. The model was tested on four European mammographic screening populations in three countries screened between 2009 and 2020 for women ages 45 to 69.

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Biomarker model predicts breast cancer risk without racial bias

AuntMinnie

However, mammograms contain highly predictive biomarkers of future cancer risk. They conducted a study that included 129,340 routine bilateral screening mammograms performed in 71,479 women between 2009 to 2018 with five-year follow-up data. Mammograms contain highly predictive biomarkers of future cancer risk.

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Finally, after years in the works!!

J Gershon Breast Imaging

What has been a law in Connecticut since 2009, has now finally become federal legislation! Every woman in the United States who has a mammogram will be notified of her breast density, enabling her to be proactive in obtaining additional imaging to evaluate her breast tissue.

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USPSTF finalizes breast cancer screening recommendations

AuntMinnie

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. ". Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requirement that all women having mammograms receive notice that their breasts are dense or not dense.

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Annual Breast Cancer Screening Beginning at 40 Saves Lives

Imaging Technology

Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2009 to screen every other year, or biennially, beginning at age 50 resulted in a nationwide decline in screening participation. Annual screening of women 40-79 years showed the lowest per mammogram false-positive screens (6.5%) and benign biopsies (0.88%) compared to other screening scenarios.

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Unlock the advantage of time across the breast health continuum of care

The British Institute of Radiology

Almost 43% of women over 40 years old have dense breast tissue that can obscure lesions on traditional 2D mammograms, making cancers harder to detect and recalls more likely [6]. 2009 May; 4(2): 89–92. J Natl Cancer Inst. 106(10), 2014. [7] 7] Ingrid Schreer. Breast Care (Basel).