Response to the New USPSTF Recommendations on Breast Cancer Screening
The new United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) grade “B” recommendation for “average risk” women to get mammography screening every 2 years between 40 and 74 years of age simplifies the ongoing discussion about breast cancer screening as compared with the 2016 guidelines.1 The previous guideline was complicated and difficult to follow by primary care clinicians. However, before finalization, grounding the guideline discussion in the long held and increasingly accepted conviction that risk–rather than age-based screening–will improve outcomes results in lost opportunities is crucially important.
