New Mammogram guidelines published via ACS

[Gfunk6]

JAMA: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2463262

Basically recommends increasing screening age for average risk patients from 40 to 45 and then do every other year mammograms after 55. High risk guidelines coming out next year.

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[medgator]

Sounds like compromise between acr/acog etc and the uspstf. Let's see how the the other societies respond

 

[seper]

glad to see that

 

[thesauce]

glad to see that

Such a hot button issue. I'm surprised they decided to jump into this quagmire.