{"id":12961,"date":"2024-04-30T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/?p=12961"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:12:33","slug":"routine-breast-cancer-screening-should-start-at-age-40-uspstf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/routine-breast-cancer-screening-should-start-at-age-40-uspstf\/","title":{"rendered":"Routine Breast Cancer Screening Should Start at Age 40: USPSTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-mo\">\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bc<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>\u3002<\/p><p>By Kerry Dooley Young<\/p>\n<p>Source Medscape<\/p>\n<p>Women who are considered to be at average risk for breast cancer should have mammograms every other year starting at age 40 years until age 74, according to the latest recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).<\/p>\n<p>In its updated recommendations\u00a0published on\u00a0April 30 in\u00a0<em>JAMA<\/em>, the USPSTF also made an urgent call to address reasons why Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than are White women and pressed for more research to address persisting questions about how best to screen for cancer in dense breasts, which about 40% of women have. The USPSTF highlighted evidence gaps on the benefits and harms of continuing\u00a0mammography\u00a0after age 75 years as well.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/routine-breast-cancer-screening-should-start-age-40-uspstf-2024a10008dz\">https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/routine-breast-cancer-screening-should-start-age-40-uspstf-2024a10008dz<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u5c0d\u4e0d\u8d77\uff0c\u6b64\u5185\u5bb9\u53ea\u9069\u7528\u65bcEnglish\u3002By Kerry Dooley Young Source Medscape Women who are considered to be at average risk for breast cancer should have mammograms every other year starting at age 40 years until age 74, according to the latest recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). In its updated recommendations\u00a0published on\u00a0April 30 in\u00a0JAMA, the USPSTF also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12961\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drknowhk.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}