NCI Adopts New Mammography Screening Guidelines For Women

Open Access

16 April 1997

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Vol. 89 (8) , 538-540
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/89.8.538

Abstract

The National Cancer Institute has accepted new guidelines from the presidentially appointed National Cancer Advisory Board, which recommend screening mammograms everyone to two years for women ages 40 to 49 if they are at average risk of breast cancer.

Keywords

GUIDELINES
BREAST
MAMMOGRAPHY
RECOMMEND
ADVISORY
MAMMOGRAMS
APPOINTED
NCI
NATIONAL CANCER
PRESIDENTIALLY