New study questions whether annual mammograms are necessary for most women

A caller survey suggests that yearly mammograms whitethorn not beryllium the lone effectual attack for preventing bosom cancer.

The research, published successful the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), tested a risk-based bosom crab screening attack against modular yearly mammography.

The WISDOM randomized objective trial, led by survey authors from universities and healthcare systems crossed the U.S., considered much than 28,000 women aged 40 to 74 years old, splitting them into a risk-based screening radical and an yearly mammography group.

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Researchers calculated each woman’s idiosyncratic hazard based connected genetics (sequencing of 9 bosom crab genes) and different wellness factors. 

A caller survey suggests that yearly mammograms whitethorn not beryllium the lone effectual attack for preventing bosom cancer. (iStock)

Those who were astatine the highest hazard were advised to alternate betwixt a mammogram and an MRI scan each six months. Patients with elevated hazard were told to get an yearly mammography and counseling.

Average-risk women were guided to get mammograms each 2 years, portion low-risk individuals were advised to person nary screening until they became higher hazard oregon reached property 50.

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The researchers recovered that risk-based screening did not pb to much precocious crab diagnoses (stage 2B oregon higher) compared with yearly screening, indicating that it is conscionable arsenic harmless arsenic accepted methods. The risk-based approach, however, did not trim the fig of biopsies overall, arsenic researchers had hoped.

Among the risk-based radical of women, those with higher hazard had much screening, biopsies and detected cancers. Women astatine little hazard had less procedures.

The research, published successful the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), tested a risk-based bosom crab screening attack against modular yearly mammography. (iStock)

"[The] findings suggest that risk-based bosom crab screening is simply a harmless alternate to yearly screening for women aged 40 to 74 years," the researchers noted successful the probe summary. "Screening strength matched idiosyncratic risk, perchance reducing unnecessary imaging."

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Fox News aesculapian contributor Dr. Nicole Saphier, subordinate prof of radiology astatine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center successful New Jersey, commented that portion these findings are important, the survey "completely sidelines" what screenings are designed to bash — observe crab early.

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"If you don’t measurement signifier 0, signifier 1 oregon signifier 2A cancers, you can’t archer whether personalized screening delays diagnosis successful a mode that matters for endurance and attraction intensity," Saphier, who was not progressive successful the study, told Fox News Digital successful an interview.

Those who were astatine the highest hazard were advised to alternate betwixt a mammogram and an MRI scan each six months. (iStock)

More than 60% of bosom cancers successful the U.S. are diagnosed astatine signifier 1 oregon 2A, wherever cure rates transcend 90%, the doc noted.

The proceedings doesn’t "fully evaluate" whether risk-based screening changes detection astatine the earliest and astir treatable stages, wherever screening "delivers its top benefit," according to Saphier.

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"Mammography is not without hazard — radiation exposure, mendacious positives, anxiousness and imaginable over-diagnosis are existent and should beryllium acknowledged," she said. "But it remains the astir effective, evidence-based instrumentality for detecting bosom crab early, erstwhile attraction is astir successful."

The adept added that labeling women nether 50 arsenic "low risk" is "outdated," arsenic bosom crab diagnoses are connected the emergence successful younger females.

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"Until semipermanent mortality information enactment alternate approaches, yearly screening opening astatine 40 for mean hazard women should continue," Saphier added. "Women should beryllium assessed for bosom crab hazard by 25 years aged to find if screening should statesman earlier."