Mammography screening cuts risk of breast cancer
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Women who undergo mammography screening reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by 40 percent, an international study published in the United States showed.
Researchers reported that women aged 50 to 69 who received screening were 40 percent less likely to succumb to the decrease compared to women who were not screened.
Simply inviting a woman to undergo a mammography reduced her risk of death from breast cancer by 23 percent, the researchers said in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Not all women act on the invitation, however.
鈥淭his important analysis will hopefully reassure women around the world that breast screening with mammography saves lives,鈥 said co-author Stephen Duffy of Queen Mary University of London. 鈥淭he evidence proves breast screening is a vital tool in increasing early diagnosis of breast cancer and therefore reducing the number of deaths,鈥 he added.
The study was conducted by experts from 16 countries, who evaluated different methods of breast cancer detection across 11 controlled clinical trials and 40 observational studies.
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