Study: Few Women Get Annual Mammogram
From Times Wire Services
Despite more than a decade of urging by doctors that women over age 40 should get mammograms yearly, few actually do, according to a large cancer study.
Only 6% of women who had a mammogram in 1992 got one annually for the next 10 years, according to a study of 72,417 women of all ages at Massachusetts General Hospital, the largest look at mammography to date. The study appears today on the Website of Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society.
The society recommends that women 40 and older have a mammogram and breast exam yearly. Younger women are urged to get a breast exam every three years.
