According to an American expert committee Breast cancer screening should start at age 40 instead of age 50 For women, more and more women in their 40s are being diagnosed with breast cancer euronews.
An independent team of experts funded by the US government suggested this Women should undergo breast cancer screening every two years starting at age 40. According to data from the National Cancer Institute, the incidence of breast cancer among women in their forties has increased by two percent annually since 2015, and with screening Breast cancer that is detected at an early stage can be easily treated.
The situation is similar in Hungary, where the number of people under 50 years of age diagnosed with breast cancer has risen significantly. Between 2011 and 2019, 30% more women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Currently, there is a package of proposals on the table of decision-makers in Hungary, which includes a new protocol for mammography screenings, which we wrote more about here.
In Hungary, women aged 45 to 65 years are invited once every two years by a personal letter addressed to their name to undergo a mammography screening test funded by the National Health Insurance Fund (NEAK).
According to the new proposal, NEAK-funded screening will be available from the age of 40.
According to Eurostat data for 2021, Denmark, Finland and Sweden ranked first in terms of breast cancer screening among EU member states, with 80-83 percent of women aged 50 to 69 years participating in a test. Mammograms in the past two years. Malta and Slovenia came in second place with rates of 77.8 percent and 77.2 percent, respectively. Bulgaria, Cyprus, Slovakia, Hungary and Latvia had the lowest percentage of women participating in breast cancer screening: ranging from 20.6% to 30.8%.
The availability of mammography machines per 100,000 population was highest in Greece and Cyprus, at 7.1 and 5.9 machines, respectively. Then came Belgium, Italy and Croatia in the ranking with 3.3 and 3.6 cars. Germany, France, Romania, and Poland had the lowest numbers of mammograms: Eurostat reports that there are between 0.5 and 1.1 devices per 100,000 inhabitants.
