Highlights
- •Women may be divided into ‘low to moderate’ and ‘high’ risk for breast cancer categories.
- •An individualized approach towards screening should be instigated.
- •In the ‘low to moderate’ risk category further mammography screening should be discussed.
- •In the ‘low to moderate’ risk category there is no agreement about the screening interval.
- •In high risk women yearly digital mammography, ultrasound and clinical examination is warranted.
Abstract
Introduction
Aims
Materials and methods
Results and conclusion
Keywords
1. Introduction
2. Publicly organized population mammography screening
2.1 Screening: advantages, limitations and risks
- Berry D.A.
- Kopans D.B.
- Webb M.L.
- Cady B.
Belgian Cancer Registry. http://www.kankerregister.org/ [accessed 28.08.14].
2.2 Risk factors for breast cancer and screening
- Onega T.
- Beaber E.F.
- Sprague B.L.
- et al.
2.3 Improving population screening
3. Principles of individualized breast cancer screening
- •As most western societies have invested in public breast cancer screening programmes from age 50 for average risk women, individual screening should begin from the age at which the breast cancer risk is equal to that for an average risk women aged 50 years (≈2% in the next 10 years or remaining lifetime risk ≈8%).
- •Individual screening should stop when the risk of co-mortality from other diseases exceeds the risk of breast cancer mortality.
- •The frequency of screening rounds should be adapted to the individual level of risk.
- •Imaging modality should be adapted to breast characteristics in order to reach the best sensitivity and specificity.
- •The screening strategy should be regularly and individually reassessed.
4. Identifying women at higher risk
5. Proposed algorithm
American College of Radiology BI-RADS® – Mammography 2013. http://www.acr.org/Quality-Safety/Resources/BIRADS/Mammography [accessed 27.08.14].

6. Conclusions
Contributors
Competing interests
Funding
Provenance and peer review
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