Biennial mammograms from age 40 suggested, despite advocates emphasizing the need for yearly screenings for early detection and better survival rates.
FILE - In this Thursday, May 6, 2010 file photo, a radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles.
At 45, Wendy Shurelds was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. She had been following her doctor's advice to undergo screenings every other year. “It never dawned on me that missing, you know, a year, that the following year I would be diagnosed with breast cancer,” Shurelds said.breast cancer guidelines recommend women with average risk get mammograms every other year starting at age 40, rather than 50. The task forcethis approach could save more lives. And has greater potential to benefit Black women, who are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women, despite fewer diagnoses.
“This was a discussion that my support group had and they were very upset,” Shurelds said. When they are diagnosed at a later stage, that's almost like a death sentence to them. So to actually miss a year of not getting a mammogram is just detrimental.”Dr. Lori Uyeno is a breast surgeon affiliated with Sharp Memorial Hospital. For years, she’s followed the guidelines of organizations like the“We're seeing that we still pick up a lot of women who are having breast cancer at a younger age.
“I told them that you do not have to accept it. You fight and advocate for yourself that you want your screening,” she said. “We can't afford to have this as African American women. We just can't. It's unacceptable.”Heidi de Marco is an award-winning photojournalist and health reporter who has focused her work on producing multimedia stories that help humanize the complex health and humanitarian issues impacting marginalized and vulnerable communities in the United States and abroad.
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