"The Breast Cancer Pre-Screening Test You Should Get By Age 30" - Sarah Klein
An article published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology addressing breast cancer screening recommendations for high-risk women has one idea: Let’s get all women evaluated for breast cancer risk by age 30. Not every PCP or ob-gyn will be well-versed in breast cancer risk, however. Yours may decide to refer you to a colleague or a breast clinic instead. It’s that lack of expertise among some doctors that concerns Charles L. Shapiro, MD, director of cancer survivorship and translational breast cancer research at the Tisch Cancer Institute and professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “I think that the idea of the risk assessment at earlier ages is a good one. It’s an extension of people taking control of their own health and finding out what their risk is. But the practicality of it and logistics are not set up to do it at the current time. I’m not so sure the infrastructure’s in place.”
- Charles L. Shapiro, MD, Director, Cancer Survivorship, Translational Breast Cancer Research, The Tisch Cancer Institute, Professor, Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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