Breast cancer screening among women from 65 to 74 years of age in 1987-88 and 1991

Article Abstract:

Mammography among older women aged 65 to 74 increased significantly from 1987-88 to 1991, but clinical breast examination decreased over the same period. While older women have twice the breast cancer mortality rate of younger women and although studies suggest breast cancer screening is more effective in older women, they are still less likely to undergo mammography and clinical breast examination than younger women. A study comparing surveys of mammography and clinical breast examination use among older women in five different areas of the US found mammography use increased from 19% to 33% in 1987-88 to 35% to 59% in 1988. However, clinical breast examination use decreased from 95% to 85% among women who had had a mammogram. To be most effective, breast cancer screening should include mammography, clinical breast examination and a third method not surveyed, breast self examination.

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Newspaper reporting about mammography to screen for breast cancer

Article Abstract:

Many news reporters overestimated the benefits of mammography for women under 50 and did not repeat the recommendations of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society. Many also did not identify their sources of information or discuss the controversy over screening women under 50 for breast cancer.

Evaluation, Newspapers, Media coverage, Journalism, Medical, Medical journalism

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How sensitive are screening mammograms in women with and without a family history of breast cancer?

Article Abstract:

Mammography becomes more accurate in detecting breast cancer as women age. It is no more or less accurate in detecting breast cancer in women with a family history of breast cancer than in women with no family history.

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