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Research Suggests Radiation May Put High-Risk Women at Even Higher Risk
The very test that was designed to detect breast cancer may actually cause breast cancer in high risk young women, a study presented this week at the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) suggests. These preliminary
Mammograms Could Cause Breast Cancer in High-Risk Young Women, Study Warns
Date: December 1, 2009
Chicago, IL
United States of America findings put women who have the so-called "breast cancer gene" or a family history of breast cancer in a pickle about whether to get the early or frequent mammograms many doctors recommend.
A Dutch epidemiologist told medical experts at the radiology conference, "For women at high risk for breast cancer, screening is very important, but a careful approach should be taken when considering mammography for screening young women, particularly under age 30." The researcher, Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide, Ph.D., from the Department of Epidemiology and Radiology at University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, warned doctors, "Further, repeated exposure to low-dose radiation should be avoided."
Ideally, young women at high risk for breast cancer will avail themselves of safer screening methods that do not involve exposure to potentially cancer causing radiation. Such methods could include sonograms and MRIs, tests which are currently performed in addition to--not instead of--mammograms.
The study findings were presented at the annual radiology conference in Chicago not even a month after a government task force's recommendation to discontinue routine mammograms for all women between the ages of 40 and 49 stirred up controversy and confusion among millions of women. The government panel advised women to discuss the benefits and risks of regular mammogram screenings for breast cancer with their health care providers instead of blanketly
Research Suggests Radiation May Put High-Risk Women at Even Higher Risk
The very test that was designed to detect breast cancer may actually cause breast cancer in high risk young women, a study presented this week at the Radiology Society of North America (RSNA) suggests. These preliminary
Mammograms Could Cause Breast Cancer in High-Risk Young Women, Study Warns
Date: December 1, 2009
Chicago, IL
United States of America findings put women who have the so-called "breast cancer gene" or a family history of breast cancer in a pickle about whether to get the early or frequent mammograms many doctors recommend.
A Dutch epidemiologist told medical experts at the radiology conference, "For women at high risk for breast cancer, screening is very important, but a careful approach should be taken when considering mammography for screening young women, particularly under age 30." The researcher, Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide, Ph.D., from the Department of Epidemiology and Radiology at University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, warned doctors, "Further, repeated exposure to low-dose radiation should be avoided."
Ideally, young women at high risk for breast cancer will avail themselves of safer screening methods that do not involve exposure to potentially cancer causing radiation. Such methods could include sonograms and MRIs, tests which are currently performed in addition to--not instead of--mammograms.
The study findings were presented at the annual radiology conference in Chicago not even a month after a government task force's recommendation to discontinue routine mammograms for all women between the ages of 40 and 49 stirred up controversy and confusion among millions of women. The government panel advised women to discuss the benefits and risks of regular mammogram screenings for breast cancer with their health care providers instead of blanketly
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