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full screen Mammography involves taking pictures of the breasts with a special X-ray machine to prevent breast cancer. Archive image. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
The National Board of Health and Welfare should decide that even women who have passed the 75-year mark should be called for breast cancer screening, write representatives of several women’s and pensioners’ organizations on DN Debatt.
Today, every fourth breast cancer is found in a woman who is over 75 years old, yet they are not called to a mammogram, the writers underline.
“Among women aged 70-74, a whopping 74 percent of all breast cancers are diagnosed through screening. Since screening ends after 74 years, the possibility of early detection disappears as if by magic,” they write in the debate article, signed by, among other things, the chairman of PRO, SPF Seniors and the Breast Cancer Association.
All women over the age of 74 who wish to continue with breast cancer screening should, according to the authors, be called for it at the same intervals as women aged 40–74.