STAT May 2, 2024
If, after reading the latest recommendation on breast cancer screening by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), you feel like your head is spinning, that’s understandable. The task force’s newest advice, which gives a “B” grade in favor of routine mammograms for women in their 40s, reverses its 2016 statement saying the test should be optional for such women. And that 2016 opinion conflicted with earlier task force recommendations.
Why has there been such zigzagging when it comes to screening younger women for signs of hidden breast cancer? It’s not that the data keep changing between task force recommendations. Instead, as with other groups using evidence-based medicine, task force reviews emerge from complicated analyses and discussions of data...
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