Breast Lumps Between Mammography Visits Signal High Risk

BARCELONA—Women who develop breast symptoms—especially lumps—between regular mammography screening examinations are up to four times more likely to have a diagnosis of breast cancer soon after than women who do not have symptoms according to findings of a massive study of routine mammography from Finland reported at the 2018 European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC 11).

“Women with symptoms should be taken as a different, separate group—a high risk group. So they will have different screening strategies from women without symptoms [with] more further assessment like ultrasound, further mammography or biopsy and close monitoring,” said study author Deependra Singh MPH who works in the Research Laboratory of the Finnish Cancer Registry in Helsinki, Finland.

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Breast symptoms and risk of interval breast cancers in mammography-screening programme 

https://www.ecco-org.eu/Events/EBCC11/Searchable-Programme#anchorScpr