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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: Mammogram Guidelines

November 18, 2009 Barbara Monsees

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Chief, Breast Imaging, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and Siteman Cancer Center

Ronald and Hanna Evens Professor of Women’s Health

Published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine are several articles and an editorial dealing with the breast cancer screening recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The general purpose of their efforts is a good one, to take an unbiased look at all the evidence and make recommendations based on science. This task force looked specifically at the benefits and harms of breast cancer screening including mammography, digital mammography, magnetic resonance imaging, breast self examination and clinical breast... more >>>