When More Informed, 20 Percent of Women in Their 40s Want to Delay Mammograms

Around 20 percent of women in their 40s would delay their breast cancer screenings until around age 50 if given an informed choice, according to survey findings published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study found that women who chose to delay their mammograms, an imaging method for early detection of breast cancer, were usually at low risk of breast cancer and were concerned about harms caused by overdiagnosis. “Commonly stated reasons for delaying screening included lack of family history, low cancer risk, and concern about screening harms,” the study authors, most of whom were researchers from the University of Colorado, wrote in the paper....