The Cost-Effectiveness of Screening Mammography Beyond Age 65: A Systematic Review

potentially avoidable cancer mortality among women.1,2 Breast cancer is largely found in older women.1,3 Presently, in the United States almost 50% of new cases and nearly two-thirds of deaths from breast cancer occur in 13% of the female population aged 65 or older (hereafter referred to as “older women”).1 By 2030, 1 in 5 U.S. women will be aged 65 or older.4 This “graying of America”5 will largely increase the absolute number of breast cancer cases among older women.6 However, since few older women were included in the original screening trials, we have little primary data upon which to base recommendations.