For many women, regular breast cancer screening is standard medical protocol. But for older women, should it be?
“There’s been a lot of uncertainty,” said Dr. Xabier Garcia-Albéniz, an oncologist and epidemiologist at RTI Health Solutions and lead author of a new observational study that tries to answer that question. “This is an area with a complete lack of randomized clinical trials.”
Breast cancer studies, like medical research in general, have often excluded older subjects. So the data on whether mammography improves survival is very limited in women ages 70 to 74, and nonexistent for those 75 and older.
READ MORE (Source: New York Times, 03/16/2020)