National cancer institute mammography guidelines

Study the experts indicated, examination breast cancer, especially for women aged 66 until 74 years, who performed annually year or two once caped as effective.

This conclusion taken after scientists compare examination mammography carried annually with two years once on elderly. They comparing two the time schedule screening does to diagnose breast cancer in the final stage, including also results ' false positive ' that may be detected.

Dr. Braithwaite, assistant professor cancer epidemic of Helen Diller family comprehensive cancer center at the university of California San Francisco said breast cancer risk detected at the final stage will not be great if you do screening once every two years from being every year.

Braithwaite and his colleagues found that woman who performs screening every two years less likely to accept the results the “false positive” than those who do screening every year. In this study researchers collect data on more than 140,000 women with age 66 to 89 years during 1999 to 2006. A total of contracting is 3,000 people woman to be diagnosed with cancer.

The result ' false positive ' usually found only after examining extensive and invasive done. Examination was done following the early diagnostics. But experts said examination was no need to do. Beside expensive, patients must also lose much time.

If frequency of accuracy diagnoses mammograms can be reduced and increases that this would be beneficial not only to patients but also the service provider and health insurance companies.

According to the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, over the past 10 years, there were 48 percent of the women who do the screening every year get a diagnosis with ' false positive ' for breast cancer. As for those who are doing the screening two years, only 20 percent who received the results of the ' false positive

According to the American Cancer Society, women who need to do a screening every year are women over the age of 40 who have a history of breast cancer.

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