Few Older Women Are Aware of Guidelines on When to Stop Breast Cancer Screening

Introduction

The benefit of breast cancer screening can be delayed for 10 years, whereas harms, such as false positive tests and overdiagnosis, may occur in the short term [1]. The likelihood of benefit from screening declines while the likelihood of harm increases with older age and shorter life expectancy [1]

Citation

N. L. Schoenborn, Q.-L. Xue, S. E. Gollust, et al., “ Few Older Women Are Aware of Guidelines on When to Stop Breast Cancer Screening,” Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (2025): 1–4, https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.70080.