Here are the key screening recommendations from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care for women with an average risk of developing breast cancer:
– No routine mammography for most women aged 40 to 49 because the risk of cancer is low in this group while the risk of false-positive results and overdiagnosis and overtreatment is higher.
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– Routine screening with mammography every two to three years for women aged 50 to 69.
– Routine screening with mammography every two to three years for women aged 70 to 74.
– No screening of women using MRI.
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– No routine clinical breast exams or breast self-exams to screen for breast cancer.
Women with an average risk of developing breast cancer have had no previous breast cancer, no history of the disease in a first-degree relative like a mother or sister, no known BRCA genetic mutation and no previous exposure to therapeutic radiation of the chest wall.
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