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According to a study in CANCER, nearly 34/4 of deaths from breast cancer occur in women who have not been screened. Medical records of over 7000 women who were diagnosed with potentially curable (stages I-III) invasive breast cancer for a set period of time and followed. There were over 600 deaths of which almost 3/4 of the deaths occurred in unscreened women ,And yet the guidelines continue to speak to having mammograms starting at 50. In this study the women constituted half of that group and were younger than fifty. We remain aware of the fact that younger women normally have more aggressive disease.
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
March 2015
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