{"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\/pt\/news\/annual-mammograms\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00e1 muito que a Southcoast Health recomenda a realiza\u00e7\u00e3o de mamografias aos 40 anos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Em maio deste ano, a U.S. Preventive Task Force (USPSTF) juntou a sua voz \u00e0 da maioria das associa\u00e7\u00f5es m\u00e9dicas nacionais ao publicar um projeto de orienta\u00e7\u00f5es que reduz a idade recomendada para iniciar as mamografias de 50 para 40 anos. Esta juntou-se \u00e0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/\">Sociedade Americana do Cancro<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breastsurgeons.org\/\">Sociedade Americana de Cirurgi\u00f5es da Mama<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acog.org\/\">Col\u00e9gio Americano de Obstetras e Ginecologistas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acr.org\/\">Col\u00e9gio Americano de Radiologia<\/a>e <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbi-online.org\/\">Sociedade de Imagiologia da Mama<\/a>que t\u00eam orienta\u00e7\u00f5es semelhantes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/maureen-chung-md\/\">Dra. Maureen Chung<\/a>, cirurgi\u00e3o mam\u00e1rio e Diretor M\u00e9dico de <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/breast-center\/\">Centro de cuidados da mama da Southcoast Health <\/a>O programa levou a Southcoast Health a adotar estas diretrizes em 2019, muito antes da recomenda\u00e7\u00e3o da USPSTF deste ano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Se olharmos para os dados relativos \u00e0 idade do diagn\u00f3stico, n\u00e3o se verifica um salto s\u00fabito aos 50 anos\", afirma o Dr. Chung. \"Aumenta entre os 40 e os 75 anos de idade\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mulheres entre os 40 e os 49 anos representam um em cada seis diagn\u00f3sticos de cancro da mama a n\u00edvel nacional, explicou, um n\u00famero que tem vindo a aumentar. O cancro da mama \u00e9 a segunda causa mais comum de morte por cancro nas mulheres, a seguir ao cancro do pulm\u00e3o, segundo a American Cancer Society. Segundo a Dra. Chung, o in\u00edcio do rastreio mamogr\u00e1fico aos 40 anos de idade salva anualmente mais 6 500 vidas em todo o pa\u00eds e 70% das mulheres que morrem de cancro n\u00e3o est\u00e3o inscritas num programa de rastreio regular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Se juntarmos tudo isto, \u00e9 importante come\u00e7ar o rastreio mamogr\u00e1fico aos 40 anos\", afirma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southcoast recomenda mamografias anuais para evitar que o cancro cres\u00e7a sem ser detectado at\u00e9 ser mais dif\u00edcil trat\u00e1-lo eficazmente. Isto tamb\u00e9m \u00e9 consistente com a maioria das diretrizes das associa\u00e7\u00f5es m\u00e9dicas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O Southcoast Health Breast Center est\u00e1 equipado com tomoss\u00edntese mam\u00e1ria digital, a mais recente tecnologia de imagiologia que produz mamografias detalhadas e tridimensionais. As imagens permitem que os radiologistas identifiquem melhor os problemas que se escondem no tecido mam\u00e1rio denso, ao mesmo tempo que diferenciam o tecido normal e sobreposto. Isso limita o n\u00famero de bi\u00f3psias desnecess\u00e1rias que s\u00e3o realizadas, disse o Dr. Chung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"As mamografias n\u00e3o previnem o cancro, mas detectam-no mais cedo\", afirmou. \"Isso traduz-se em salvar vidas\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Para mais informa\u00e7\u00f5es sobre rastreios de mamografia e sa\u00fade mam\u00e1ria, visite<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/services\/breast-center\/\">Centro de Cuidados da Mama| Sa\u00fade Southcoast<\/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\/pt\/news\/annual-mammograms\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\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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