Study leaves women with conflicting advice on mammograms
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Controversial U. S. guidelines for mammography issued in 2009, calling for screening every two years rather than annually for women over 50 years old, can result in breast cancers being missed, according to U. S. researchers studying the hotly debated topic. This latest study assessing the impact of revised guidelines issued by the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force three years ago comes on the back of a chilling analysis published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The NEJM study, using three decades of U. S. . . .
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