Individual Risk Assessment Ups Mammography in Women at High Risk

Providing individualized breast cancer risk estimates as a component of primary healthcare is associated with an increased use of mammography among women of racial and ethnic minority groups who are at high risk for breast cancer, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Investigators examined whether providing individualized breast cancer risk estimates is associated with an increase in the rate of screening mammography. There was a non significant increase in the mammography rate among those women receiving an individualized risk assessment (48.9%) versus women receiving usual care (38.8%). However, when examining only women at high risk, the mammography rate was significantly higher after versus before risk assessment (51.1% vs 36.6%).