A new report from the National Cancer Institute notes a nationwide decline in mammography utilization between 2000 and 2005 in statistics from the National Health Interview Survey. This raises the unhappy possibility that the reported reduction in the incidence of breast cancer in recent years may be nothing more than observer error.
There were significant drops in mammography use among women in the highest risk group (those aged between 50 and 64) and among educated white women with health insurance—one group that has traditionally had regular mammograms.
Only last month, other experts were proposing that the recent decline in breast cancer rates was due to reduced use of hormone replacement therapy.
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