What most American women do not know when it comes to examining breast cancer star-news.press/wp

More than half of American women may be confused around the time of starting to obtain regular X -ray breast imaging to examine breast cancer.

This is the discovery of a survey from researchers at the Annberg Center for Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, which revealed the most uncertainty among younger women.

Women who suffer from the risk of breast cancer should start to examine every two years of the age of forty, according to the latest directives issued in April of last year from the American Preventive Services Service, an independent committee of medical experts.

Radios imaging was able to detect cancer early, before the symptoms become visible. It has been shown that regular examination reduces the risk of death from breast cancer.

“Confusion can arise when the medical directive changes about the discovery of treatment changes, as it was in recent years with X -ray breast photography,” Cathlein Hall, director of the Annberg Center for Public Policy, said in a statement.

The recommendations have already turned from 40 to 50 and then fell to 40 again. The confusing things are how some medical groups provide different guidelines. For example, the American Cancer Society indicates, for example, that women start the examination between 40 and 44 years, and they have X -ray mammals annually from 45 to 54, then each year after that.

“Our data indicates that the recommendation that this examination usually start from 40 years is not widely known,” Jamieson added.

The poll – which was conducted in late April this year on a sample of more than 1,653 American adults – connects that only 49 percent of the respondents knew that women are recommended to start obtaining X -ray breast photography every year from the age of forty.

Meanwhile, 10 percent said that the examination should start at the age of 20, and 21 per cent said at the age of 30, 9 percent, and the age of 50 and 11 received that they were not sure when you should start. (Each number is rounded to the nearest 1 percent, which explains why these numbers are not added to 100 percent.)

Restriction of responses by age, the results of the survey indicate a greater amount of uncertainty on this topic among younger women. Specifically, only 37 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 29 were known for the right age to start the examination.

In contrast, 72 percent of women between the ages of 40 and 49 years are between 30, 39 and 59 percent 50-74 knew that the recommended age was 40.

Besides, 16 percent of women between the ages of 18 to 29 and 11 percent, between the ages of 30 and 39, said they were not sure at all when starting a regular examination; This number was only one percent for women between the ages of 40 and 49.

Among the 18-29 age group, the most common age was incorrectly reported to the date of starting the 30th mammosis (chosen by 27 percent of women); This is a contract before the recommended.

However, the most common miserliness between the ages of 30 and 39 (that is, was close to the aged aged 40 years) was 50 years old – after a decade of current recommendations.

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The General Policy Center at Anburg at the University of Pennsylvania. (2025). ASAph W24 Mammogram elements.