When More Informed, 20 Percent of Women in Their 40s Want to Delay Mammograms

In addition, a new study finds that most women who wanted to delay their mammograms were at low risk of breast cancer.

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Around 20 percent of women in their 40s would delay their breast cancer screenings until around age 50 if given an informed choice, according to survey findings published on July 16 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

The study found that women who chose to delay their mammograms, an imaging method for early detection of breast cancer, were usually at low risk of breast cancer and were concerned about harms caused by overdiagnosis.