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Study discourages routine breast cancer screening
A mammography unit at the Aga Khan University Hospital. While breast cancer is the top cancer killer of women globally, new US guidelines recommend against routine breast examination. Photo/FREDRICK ONYANGO
Posted Wednesday, November 18 2009 at 00:00
“If you look at their guidelines, they are saying, ‘Don’t examine yourself, don’t let anyone else examine you, and don’t get a mammogram.’ Where does that leave you? It leaves you waiting to have a big cancer that you can’t ignore any more,” Kopans said in a telephone interview.
The American Cancer Society will disregard the guidelines.
“The American Cancer Society will continue to recommend that women of average risk of breast cancer start screening at age 40 and get screened every year,” Dr Len Lichtenfeld, the group’s deputy chief medical officer, said in a telephone interview.
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