Mammograms saving lives

Routine mammograms lowering risk of death from breast cancer almost by 50%

Researchers from in Rotterdam, Netherlands new study reveals that routine mammograms can reduce risk of death from breast cancer and routine screening also decreases the chances of being diagnosed with 

Researchers followed 755 patients from the years 1995 to 2003 and died from breast cancer. Control patients of another 3,739 matched by age and other measures were included in the study.

Among those women with breast cancer almost thirty percent of discovered were during screening and thirty-four percent in between screenings. Almost 36% of the women never had a mammogram.

In almost thirty percent of patients advanced tumors were discovered, the women never had screenings and slightly over five percent had a mammogram.

The study had discovered that those women who had screenings cut their risk by 49% of dying from breast cancer. Those women aged 70 to 75 had the biggest risk reduction, that reduction of dying from breast cancer was 84%. However, the risk reduction from dying was smaller at 39% for those aged 50 to 69 but was still found to be considerable.

senior researcher in the department of public health at the medical center had stated that the biggest risk reduction in women aged 70 to 75 is most likely the outcome of long term good effects of participating in screenings.

Dr. Stephanie Bernik, chief of surgical oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City states that the findings from the study "add to the body of evidence supporting the fact that mammography matters in improving detection and survival,". She notes this study