New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations Issued
Demonstrating the sometimes disagreements that can occur in medical circles, new recommendations have just been issued for breast cancer screenings which conflict with breast cancer screening recommendations issued just 2 months ago.
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The new recommendations which are published in the January edition of the Journal of the American College of Radiology, come from the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI) and the American College of Radiology (ACR). They now recommend that breast cancer screenings should begin at age 40, and earlier for high risk women.
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In November, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommended breast cancer screenings need not begin until age 50 for women. They panel went so far as to say that there was no proof that breast cancer screenings begun at early ages contributed to the savings of life. Those recommendations and conclusions caused an uproar within the medical and cancer awareness communities.
“The significant decrease in breast cancer mortality, which amounts to nearly 30 percent since 1990, is a major medical success and is due largely to earlier detection of breast cancer through mammography screening,” said lead study author Dr. Carol H. Lee, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. “For women with the highest risk of developing breast cancer, screening technologies in addition to mammography have been adopted,” said Lee, who is the chair of ACR’s Breast Imaging Commission.
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So what are women to do? Regarding how women should follow the task force recommendations from November, Dr. Carl D’Orsi, director of Emory University’s Breast Imaging Center, said, “As a bottom line, they should be ignored.” D’Orsi was a member of the team that came out with today’s recommendations.
