Estimating Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis After Screening Mammography Among Older Women in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overdiagnosis is increasingly recognized as a harm of breast cancer screening, particularly for older women.

Objective

To estimate overdiagnosis associated with breast cancer screening among older women by age.

Design

Retrospective cohort study comparing the cumulative incidence of breast cancer among older women who continued screening in the next interval with those who did not. Analyses used competing risk models, stratified by age.

Setting

Fee-for-service Medicare claims, linked to the SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results) program.

Patients

Women 70 years and older who had been recently screened.

Measurements

Breast cancer diagnoses and breast cancer death for up to 15 years of follow-up.

Results

This study inclu

SUBMITTER: Richman IB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10623662 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature