A study suggests that Black patients might benefit from breast cancer screenings starting at age 42, rather than age 50.
In line with many current medical guidelines , doctors generally recommend that their female patients be regularly screened for breast cancer with mammograms starting at age 50. However, for Black patients, it may be better to start screening years earlier, because their risk of breast cancer death in their 40s is higher than that seen in other racial groups, a new study suggests.
Among patients in their 40s, the rate of breast cancer deaths varied significantly by race and ethnicity, the authors found. The rate among Black patients in this age group was 27 deaths per 100,000 people per year. "Black women tend to reach this risk level of 0.329% earlier, at age 42. White women tend to reach it at age 51, American Indian or Alaska Native and Hispanic women at age 57 years, and Asian or Pacific Islander women later, at age 61," Fallah said. Although patients of American Indian, Alaska Native, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander heritage had similar death rates due to breast cancer in their 40s, the team found that they still crossed this threshold of risk at different ages.
However, many others guidelines recommend starting screenings at age 50 and frame starting younger than that as an individual decision.
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