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True, but why are the results so poor for < 50 year-olds and what does that mean? [0] It seems like we as society should be tackling that problem and part of t
by coderintherye 5y ago
True, but why are the results so poor for < 50 year-olds and what does that mean? [0]
It seems like we as society should be tackling that problem and part of tackling that problem seems like getting more scans of denser breasts so we can develop better techniques for detecting cancer within them. Restricting access by age makes it so that we are optimizing detection for later age. Something has to change in our current approach to help figure that part of the problem out, perhaps loosening restrictions should be one such change.
[0] https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20100727 https://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20100727
- jbandela1 5y agoThe reason the results are so poor in younger women, is that younger women have denser breasts. Mammograms work by picking up densities (which many times indicate a tumor. In younger women, the whole breast is dense and you really can't tell (especially with lower radiation doses). MRI can work, but it is much more expensive, and finding the exact location of the abnormality on MRI can be trickier.