{"id":18068,"date":"2023-07-06T20:36:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/annual-mammograms\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:55:37","slug":"annual-mammograms","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/annual-mammograms\/","title":{"rendered":"Southcoast Health recomienda desde hace tiempo las mamograf\u00edas a los 40 a\u00f1os"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En mayo de este a\u00f1o, la U.S. Preventive Task Force (USPSTF) sum\u00f3 su voz a la de la mayor\u00eda de asociaciones m\u00e9dicas nacionales al publicar un borrador de directrices que rebajaba de 50 a 40 a\u00f1os la edad recomendada para empezar a hacerse mamograf\u00edas. Se uni\u00f3 as\u00ed a la <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\">Sociedad Americana contra el C\u00e1ncer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breastsurgeons.org\/\">Sociedad Americana de Cirujanos de la Mama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acog.org\/\">Colegio Americano de Obstetras y Ginec\u00f3logos<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acr.org\/\">Colegio Americano de Radiolog\u00eda<\/a>y <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbi-online.org\/\">Sociedad de Imagen Mamaria<\/a>que siguen directrices similares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/maureen-chung-md\/\">Dra. Maureen Chung<\/a>cirujano de mama y Director M\u00e9dico de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/breast-center\/\">Centro de atenci\u00f3n mamaria de Southcoast Health <\/a>El programa llev\u00f3 a Southcoast Health a adoptar estas directrices en 2019, mucho antes de la recomendaci\u00f3n del USPSTF de este a\u00f1o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Si nos fijamos en los datos relativos a la edad de diagn\u00f3stico, no salta de repente a los 50 a\u00f1os\", dijo el Dr. Chung. \"Aumenta entre los 40 y los 75 a\u00f1os\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Las mujeres de 40 a 49 a\u00f1os representan uno de cada seis diagn\u00f3sticos de c\u00e1ncer de mama en todo el pa\u00eds, explic\u00f3, una cifra que ha ido en aumento. El c\u00e1ncer de mama es la segunda causa m\u00e1s frecuente de muerte por c\u00e1ncer entre las mujeres, despu\u00e9s del c\u00e1ncer de pulm\u00f3n, seg\u00fan informa la Sociedad Americana del C\u00e1ncer. Empezar a hacerse mamograf\u00edas a los 40 a\u00f1os salva cada a\u00f1o otras 6.500 vidas en todo el pa\u00eds, dijo la Dra. Chung, y el 70% de las mujeres que mueren de c\u00e1ncer no est\u00e1n en un programa regular de detecci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Poniendo todas las cosas en su sitio, es importante empezar a hacerse mamograf\u00edas a los 40 a\u00f1os\", dijo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southcoast recomienda mamograf\u00edas anuales para evitar que el c\u00e1ncer crezca sin ser detectado hasta que sea m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil tratarlo eficazmente. Esto tambi\u00e9n es coherente con la mayor\u00eda de las directrices de las asociaciones m\u00e9dicas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Centro de Mama de Southcoast Health est\u00e1 equipado con Tomos\u00edntesis digital de mama, lo \u00faltimo en tecnolog\u00eda de imagen que produce mamograf\u00edas detalladas y tridimensionales. Las im\u00e1genes permiten a los radi\u00f3logos identificar mejor los problemas ocultos en el tejido mamario denso, al tiempo que diferencian el tejido normal superpuesto. Esto limita el n\u00famero de biopsias innecesarias que se realizan, afirma el Dr. Chung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Las mamograf\u00edas no previenen el c\u00e1ncer, pero lo detectan antes\", dijo. \"Eso se traduce en salvar vidas\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre mamograf\u00edas y salud mamaria, visite<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/breast-center\/\">Centro de atenci\u00f3n mamaria| Southcoast Health<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6702,"template":"","categories":[1229],"class_list":["post-18068","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expert-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Southcoast Health Has Long Recommended Mammograms at Age 40 - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Southcoast recommends annual mammograms to prevent cancer from growing undetected until it is harder to treat effectively.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/annual-mammograms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Southcoast Health Has Long Recommended Mammograms at Age 40 - 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