The National Board of Health and Welfare should decide that women who have passed the 75-year mark should also be called in for breast cancer screening, write representatives of several women's and pensioner organisations on DN Debatt.
Today, every fourth breast cancer is found in a woman over 75, yet they are not called in for mammography, the writers emphasise.
"Among women aged 70-74, a full 74 per cent of all breast cancers are diagnosed through screening. Since screening stops after 74, the possibility of early detection disappears like magic", they write in the debate article, signed by, among others, the chair of PRO, SPF Seniorerna and the Breast Cancer Association.
All women over 74 who wish to continue with breast cancer screening should, according to the writers, be called in for it at the same interval as women aged 40-74.
