Tailoring breast cancer screening to a woman's individual cancer risk might work better than annual mammograms, a new study says.
Women had breast cancers caught at an earlier, more treatable stage when assigned to risk-based screening, compared to those who got annual mammograms regardless of personal risk, researchers reported Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"These findings should transform clinical guidelines for breast cancer screening and alter clinical practice," Dr. Laura Esserman, director of the University of California-San Francisco Breast Care Center, said in a news release.
For the study, researchers had more than 14,000 women receive breast cancer screening based on their risk, as determined by their age, genetics, lifestyle, health history and breast density:
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