Screening Mammography Guidelines

Neighborhood-level socioeconomic predictors of nonadherence to mammography screening guidelines.

As neighborhood context is increasingly recognized as an important predictor of health outcomes and health behaviors, this analysis sought to determine the relationship between neighborhood-level socioeconomic status (SES) and regular mammography screening behavior. One thousand four hundred fifty-one women ages 40 to 79 years who obtained an "index" screening mammogram at one of five urban hos...

Perceived racial discrimination and nonadherence to screening mammography guidelines: results from the race differences in the screening mammography process study.

The study objective was to determine whether perceived racial discrimination influenced nonadherence to screening mammography guidelines. Enrolled in this prospective study were 1,451 women aged 40-79 years who obtained an "index" screening mammogram at one of five urban hospitals in Connecticut between October 1996 and January 1998. This logistic regression analysis included 1,229 women (484 A...

Screening Mammography

OBJECTIVE . We evaluated the association between clinical image quality and breast cancer occurrence within 24 months of a negative mammogram. MATERIALS AND METHODS . We identified women with breast cancer who were younger than 40 years old and older and screened from January 1, 1988, through December 31, 1993. We retrospectively assigned Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) asses...

Benefits of screening mammography.

Breast cancer is a leading cause of premature death for women in their 40s, and mammographic screening significantly reduces the risk of death due to breast cancer. The latter was the conclusion of the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) meta-analysis of the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of screening mammography. The USPSTF concluded, however, that the absolute benefit from routine...

AMWA endorses uniform mammography screening.