Dr. Virgina Kaklamani, Medical Oncologist at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, joined Leading SA to discuss new guidelines just published regarding mammogram screenings.
– Every year, breast cancer is diagnosed to hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and remains the second leading cause of cancer death among women. Today we are talking about new guidelines just published regarding mammogram screenings.
Dr. Virgina Kaklamani, Medical Oncologist at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, joined Leading SA to break it all down.So the new guidelines recommend us doing screening mammograms starting at the age of 40 until the age of 74, every two years...
Additionally, she said if you or your loved ones go to get a mammogram, breast density may play a factor. “It’s now FDA mandated that every mammogram will give us information about our breast density. And we know that women that have dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer. We also know that mammograms may not be as effective in dense breasts because the tissue is hard to see on a mammogram. So the guidelines say that we don’t have enough data to recommend ultrasounds or MRIs in those women, and we really don’t.
These are the general guidelines, but if you are at higher risk, you should start screening earlier, suggested Dr. Kaklamani.All of these guidelines are for women that have a general risk of having breast cancer, not a high risk. So if you have a family history, if you have a specific mutation in a gene, so change in a gene that puts you at risk of getting breast cancer, these guidelines do not apply to you.
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