Mammograms Benefit Women Into Their 70s

New research from The Netherlands suggests that mammograms benefit women up to the age of 75 by cutting deaths; the researchers claim this is the first study to show this because until the late 1990s, few women over 70 were undergoing mammogram screening.

The study is the work of Jacques Fracheboud, a senior researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, and colleagues, who presented their findings at the 6th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-6) in Berlin, on Friday 18th of April.

In many countries, breast screening programmes stop at the age of 70. However, in 1998 The Netherlands extended the cut off age to 75.

source: MedicalNewsToday