Pink October is an opportunity to raise awareness among the French about breast cancer screening. The invitation to screening stops at age 74. However, breast cancer continues to claim victims beyond this age. We take stock.
The deadliest cancer in women
The cancer be you is the most common and deadlier in women. Each year, 59,000 new cases of breast cancer are identified in France. 12,000 women in die every year.
Why screening takes place between the ages of 50 and 74?
The cancer screening breast takes place every two yearss from 50 to 74 years old. Indeed, according to the National Cancer Institute, 80 % breast cancers occur after 50 years. The median age is 63 years old.
1 in 3 cancers after age 69
«Environ 28% [des cancers du sein] are diagnosed after 69according to data from the National Cancer Institute. “A large number of women over the age of 74 think that it is no longer necessary to carry out follow-up, which induces the management of cancer at late stages”, worries the French Society of Senology and of Breast Pathology (SFSPM). If theinvitation to screening stops at 74 ans, it is always possible to have a mammogram and a clinical examination on prescription. Speak to your attending physician.
Recover from chemotherapy
Moving forward by agehe’s more difficult to recover from chemotherapyespecially after a large tumor or affected lymph nodes, recalls the French Society of Senology and Breast Pathology (SFSPM).
Sources : Breast Cancer Screening, Institut national du cancer,
Breast cancer, Public Health France