The number of older women with breast cancer is forecast to double by 2030, as baby boomers age. Experts are now advising doctors to reach out through phone calls and letters to make sure that older breast cancer survivors to get yearly “surveillance” mammography routinely, regardless of their age. A new study demonstrates that those who receive annual surveillance mammography after breast cancer may give the opportunity to “decrease death from breast cancer.”
COMMENT: This article is revealing. The current rate of breast cancer is one in every eight women; doubling that rate will put the incidence at one in every four. That is 25 percent of the population. Recommending annual mammograms may find cancer reoccurences early and increase the likelihood of survival, but that will not stop the steep upward trend of breast cancer.
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