July, 2007: Journal of Clinical Oncology Results

Results from a study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology showed that each successive annual mammogram lowered a woman's breast cancer mortality risk by about 31 percent. Compounding this benefit over a period of four years would cut a woman's cumulative risk of breast cancer death by 88 percent. Dr. Timothy L. Lash of Boston University was the lead author of the cohort study, which identified 1,846 breast cancer patients from six Cancer Research Network (CRN) sites chosen to maximize ethnic and geographic diversity.