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Number 3 ◆ February 1, 2020 Practice Guidelines Breast Cancer Screening: ACP …

Mammography screening is one of the major medical accomplishments of the past 40 years.
In the United States, before 1990, the death rate from breast cancer had been unchanged for …

Breast cancer is the most common nonskin cancer in women and accounts for 30% of all
new cancers in the United States. The highest incidence of breast cancer is in women 70 to …

Mammography is the only proven frontline screening method for breast cancer. Following
the demonstration of a reduction in breast cancer mortality with mammography, population …

ContextBreast cancer screening in community practices may be different from that in
randomized controlled trials. New screening modalities are becoming available …

Description: Update of the 2002 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
recommendation statement on screening for breast cancer in the general population …

S creening mammography guide-lines have been heatedly debated since 1975, not only in
medical journals and at medical conferences but also in our nation's newspapers …

Evidence about screening for breast cancer demonstrates how principles of clinical
epidemiology can be used to aid in decisions about clinical care and health care policy …

Breast cancer has been increasing at an alarming rate and is considered to be of epidemic
proportions in the United States, with current estimates indicating that 1 in 8 women will …

What Is Breast Cancer Screening? Screening for breast cancer means looking for signs of
breast cancer in all women of a certain age or with certain risk factors, even if they have no …