Model Suggests Earlier Breast Cancer Screenings for U.S. Black Women – Consumer Health News

Written by on October 18, 2021

MONDAY, Oct. 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For Black women in the United States, initiating biennial screening at age 40 years could reduce Black-White disparities in breast cancer mortality, according to a study published online Oct. 19 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Christina Hunter Chapman, M.D., from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, and colleagues compared tradeoffs of screening strategies for Black versus White women under current guidelines. Screening strategies until age 74 years with varying ages of initiation and intervals were examined in a 1980 U.S . . .



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