Researchers involved in a new study propose that health policymakers and clinicians should consider screening Black women for breast cancer starting at age 42, as an increasing numbers of Black women reach risk level at this age.
cancer screening at the American Cancer Society, said the study was “nicely done” and he expects it “to generate considerable discussion about enduring disparities in the risk of breast cancer death between Black and white women.”“This study suggests that our current recommendations for mammographic screening in the U.S. should not be uniform and should instead be based on one’s risk of breast cancer,” Dr.
But both Smith and Freedman noted that many medical groups’ breast cancer screening recommendations already differ somewhat from the USPSTF guidelines referenced in the study.“The American Cancer Society recommends that all women begin screening at age 45,” Smith said, adding that women should also have the opportunity to begin screening earlier. Most women, he explained, do not wait until they are 50 years old to get their first mammogram and instead begin screening in their early 40s.
Although earlier screening may be beneficial for women of all ethnicities, some experts have doubts that earlier screening for Black Americans will make a dramatic impact on the current disparities in mortality rates because these disparities, they say, are more strongly correlated to things such as socioeconomic differences and differences in access to health care, which earlier screening recommendations cannot address.
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