A key U.S. agency is planning to lower its recommended age for women to start getting mammograms—but some experts worry it doesn’t go far enough.
Early detection is key to surviving breast cancer. Regular mammograms have long been our go-to screening tool—as seen in this image of a nurse operating a mammography machine at Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala on World Cancer Day. to its recommendations about when and how frequently women should begin receiving regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer.
The recommendations are still in draft form. Here’s how to make sense of it all—and what to know about newer technologies coming down the pipeline that have the potential to help women test more frequently and catch cancer earlier, when it’s more treatable.genes to risks such as alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, hormone therapy, and exposure to ionizing radiation .
And these risks and benefits aren’t static. They may shift throughout a person’s life as their health conditions and values change over time, and as medical science learns more about breast cancer risks and the potential benefits of mammography. Shah agrees. “We want to start screening younger because these cancers are more aggressive. We don’t want to wait two years.”
Widespread mammography has also raised awareness of the challenges of having dense breasts. Women with dense breasts—typically younger women—have more of the fibrous and connective tissue that provide structural support to the breast. This tissue is denser than fat and glands and appears solid white on mammograms.
She sees her device as something women could use monthly, weekly, even daily, as part of their normal routines, as the ultrasound only takes a minute or two.
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