Providers may want to consider stopping routine mammograms for women age 75 and older after a study found that they’re 123 times more likely to die from causes other than breast cancer.
Among 220,000 women who had one or more mammograms between 66 and 94 years of age over the span of a decade, researchers found that 7,583 were diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and 1,742 with ductal carcinoma in situ.
During that 10-year period, 471 died from breast cancer, while 42,229 died from other causes.
Study findings were published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
From the October 2019 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
