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Experts in U.K. want entry age for mammographic screening lowered to 47.
2003 AUG 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two leading U.K. cancer experts are calling for the entry age for mammographic screening for breast cancer to be reduced from 50 to 47 years for women in Britain.
Their rationale is detailed in a correspondence letter in the July 18, 2003, issue of the Lancet.
Screening mammography became widely available from the U.K. National Health Service in the late 1980s. Women aged 50-64 years are invited for screening every 3 years. Considerable debate surrounds the ideal age for women to enter screening programs; an ongoing trial due to report at the end of 2004 could recommend lowering the entry age to women in their 40s.
Peter Sasieni and Jack Cuzick, both leading scientists at Cancer Research U.K., believe there is sufficient evidence now to lower the entry age for screening ahead of the ongoing research.
"At age 40 years, the annual rate of breast cancer is 79 per 100,000 women, but rises substantially to 148 per 100,000 women at age 47 years ...
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