Women age 50 and above who get screening mammograms every two years instead of annually may not face an increased risk of being diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests."For women ages 40 to 49, we did see a benefit of a one-year interval over a two-year” hiatus between screenings, said Emily White, a researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and lead author of the study, which appears in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
