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Study Reveals Women Prefer Risk-Based Over Standard Mammograms

12/14/2025

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Story summary

A large trial, the WISDOM study, enrolled 46,000 women aged 40–74 to assess a risk-based screening method.
The study compared the risk-based approach to the standard annual mammogram.
Tailored screening detected tumors as effectively as standard screening and reduced late-stage diagnoses, though not statistically significant.
Most participants, 89%, opted for risk-based screening, with frequencies by risk.
The findings were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Story summary

A large trial, the WISDOM study, enrolled 46,000 women aged 40–74 to assess a risk-based screening method.
The study compared the risk-based approach to the standard annual mammogram.
Tailored screening detected tumors as effectively as standard screening and reduced late-stage diagnoses, though not statistically significant.
Most participants, 89%, opted for risk-based screening, with frequencies by risk.
The findings were published in The Journal of the American Medical Association.