Breast Cancer (Screening)

Study: Mammography Provides Equal Benefits to Women in Their 40s

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 1st, 1998

Although breast cancer is more common after age 50, the benefit of detecting breast cancer through an annual screening mammogram is greater for a woman in her 40s than for an older woman, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the June 1, 1998, issue of the journal Cancer.

Cancers detected at any age by screening mammogram tend to be equally small, averaging about 1 cm in diameter. But for women in their 40s, cancers first noticed not on a mammogram but as a palpable lump tend to be larger, more aggressive, and more likely to have already spread to the nearby lymph nodes than for older women.

Consequently, "more older...

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