ACS responds to cancer recommendation
Staff Writer,
11-30-2009
In response to this month’s controversial announcement from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – that routine breast cancer screening is no longer recommended for women between the ages of 40 and 49 – the American Cancer Society (ACS) has issued a statement of its own: Don’t listen!
“The American Cancer Society continues to recommend annual screening using mammography and clinical breast examination for all women beginning at age 40,” announced Otis W. Brawley, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of the ACS. “Our experts make this recommendation having reviewed virtually all the same data reviewed by the USPSTF, but also additional data that the USPSTF did not consider. When recommendations are based on judgments about the balance of risks and benefits, reasonable experts can look at the same data and reach different conclusions.”
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